Locating private keys in RAM?

[Florian Weimer]

* 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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