Prosecution based on memory forensics

Nils Faerber nils.faerber at kernelconcepts.de
Fri Jan 14 10:06:18 CET 2011


Hi!

Am 14.01.2011 09:34, schrieb Werner Koch:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:50, nils.faerber at kernelconcepts.de said:
>> I could write a very simple driver which provides a mmap()able memory
>> area which the application can use, protected by the kernel, and which
>> will be automatically cleared upon suspend.
>> Would that solve the problem?
> Yes.

Hmm... cool ;)

>> How much memory are we talking about here? Bytes? Kbytes? Or Mbytes?
> For gpg-agent: 32 bytes.  One memory page should be enough for any
> process.

So, what do you think, would it be worth the effort?
If it would help GnuPG and if you would like to use it I would offer to
implement it and try to push it upstream.

> Salam-Shalom,
>    Werner
Cheers
  nils

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