Locating private keys in RAM?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:14:05 -0400, "Douglas F. Calvert"
<douglasfcalvert at 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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