Steve Parker wrote: > Doesn't help (well, just a slight delay) - see Shamir and van > Someren's paper "Playing hide and seek with stored keys", delivered > to this year's Financial Cryptography conference: "We describe efficient > algebraic attacks which can locate secret RSA keys in long bit strings, > and more general statistical attacks which can find arbitrary cryptographic > keys embedded in large programs. I take it this requires access to the process's memory space? -- /=============================================================\ |John Stracke | My opinions are my own | S/MIME & HTML OK | |francis@ecal.com|============================================| |Chief Scientist | NT's lack of reliability is only surpassed | |eCal Corp. | by its lack of scalability. -- John Kirch | \=============================================================/Received on Tuesday, 15 June 1999 16:38:20 EDT
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