Passwords can sit on disk for years

Adam Fields cryptography23094893 at aquick.org
Mon Jun 7 17:53:04 EDT 2004


Tal Garfinkel (related to Simpson?) is a Stanford PHD student who has
put together a working model for tracking tainted data stored in RAM
in various popular applications.

This is the first mention I've seen of this - interesting stuff.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995064

Abstract here:

http://forum.stanford.edu/events/workshop/security/abstract/garfinkel.html


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