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Re: Locating private keys in RAM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Sep 7 07:52:33 2006
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:51:39 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Douglas F. Calvert" <douglasfcalvert@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:14:05 -0400, "Douglas F. Calvert"
<douglasfcalvert@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I remember seeing a paper about identifying private keys in RAM. I
> thought it was by Rivest but I can not locate it for the life of me.
> Does anyone remember reading something like this? The basic operation
> was to identify areas in RAM that had certain characteristics such as
> random bits and identifiable key headers...
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
It was by Shamir and van Someren. See
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/vansomeren98playing.html
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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