RE: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-09 Thread Andrew Tucker
. Calvert Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: Re: Locating private keys in RAM? 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 l

Re: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-08 Thread je
Check http://www.matasano.com/log/178/recover-a-private-key-from-process-memory/ or if you want to find the algorithms http://www.hexblog.com/2006/01/findcrypt.html On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Douglas F. Calvert wrote: Hello, I remember seeing a paper about identifying private keys in RAM. I thought

Re: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread 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 iden

RE: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Tucker
Did you mean this article by Gutmann? http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/breakms.txt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Douglas F. Calvert Sent: Mon 9/4/2006 6:14 PM To: cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: Locating private keys in RAM? Hello, I reme

Re: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Lisanke
Douglas,Many applications using RSA make use of a private key in its ASN.1 BER form. In this format, the surrounding encoding of a private key becomes very easily recognizable. The follow is an excerpt from RFC3447 (PKCS#1) -- Representation of RSA private key with information for the CRT -- algori

Re: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread 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

Re: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread Leandro Meiners
Maybe you mean http://www.trapkit.de/research/sslkeyfinder/keyfinder_v1.0_20060205.pdf Regards, Leandro On 9/4/06, Douglas F. Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:14:05 -0400, "Douglas F. Calvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ope

RE: Locating private keys in RAM?

2006-09-07 Thread 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas > F. Calvert > S