Security protection in modern microcontroller's logic devices with memories is based on the assumption that information from the memory disappears completely after erasing or when the power to the memory is removed. After information in memory is erased there may be some physical characteristics of the memory that allow erased data to be reconstructed. Data Remanence poses a serious threat to widespread applications that support this security protection assumption. This paper presents the effects of Data Remanance and techniques to avoid Security Key retrieval by data remanence attacks.
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