Re: Password change via HTTP

John Stracke (francis@ecal.com)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:34:30 +0000


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?

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