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Re: Locating private keys in RAM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Sep 7 07:53:25 2006
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Douglas F. Calvert" <douglasfcalvert@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:00:41 +0200
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(Douglas F. Calvert's message of "Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:14:05 -0400")
* Douglas F. Calvert:
> 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...
>From findkey.c in The Coroner's Toolkit:
/* A. Shamir and N. van Someren, Playing Hide and Seek With Stored
/* Keys, 1998.
/* http://www.ncipher.com/products/files/papers/anguilla/keyhide2.pdf.
(The web page no longer exists, though.)
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