Locating private keys in RAM?

[Thomas]

Am Dienstag 05 September 2006 03:14 schrieb Douglas F. Calvert:
> 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...

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 at electric-sheep.org>
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