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RE: Locating private keys in RAM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Tucker)
Sat Sep 9 14:29:27 2006
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From: Andrew Tucker <Andrew.Tucker@microsoft.com>
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"Douglas F. Calvert" <douglasfcalvert@gmail.com>
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The link to the paper is broken but this one works:
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~astubble/600.412/s-c-papers/keys2.pdf#search=3D%22=
k
eyhide2.pdf%22
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To: Douglas F. Calvert
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Subject: Re: Locating private keys in RAM?
Am Dienstag 05 September 2006 03:14 schrieb Douglas F. Calvert:
> Hello,
> I remember seeing a paper about identifying private keys in RAM. I=20
> 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=20
> was to identify areas in RAM that had certain characteristics such as=20
> random bits and identifiable key headers...
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
This one?
http://www.ncipher.com/products/files/papers/anguilla/keyhide2.pdf
and code for it: http://www.thc.segfault.net/releases/keyfinder.c
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Tom <tom@electric-sheep.org>
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