Locating private keys in RAM?

[Whyte, William]

Adi Shamir and Nicko Van Someren, Playing Hide and Seek with Stored Keys:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/vansomeren98playing.html 

Shamir, not Rivest. Easy mistake...

William


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com 
> [mailto:owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com] On Behalf Of Douglas 
> F. Calvert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:14 AM
> To: cryptography at metzdowd.com
> Subject: Locating private keys in RAM?
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
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> douglasfcalvert at gmail.com
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