IACR
2011
12 years 3 months ago
2011
Search for cryptographic keys in RAM is a new and prospective technology which can be used, primarily, in the computer forensics. In order to use it, a cryptanalyst must solve, at...
USS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Many techniques have been proposed to generate keys including text passwords, graphical passwords, biometric data and etc. Most of these techniques are not resistant to coercion a...
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Although biometrics have garnered significant interest as a source of entropy for cryptographic key generation, recent studies indicate that many biometric modalities may not actu...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for several seconds after power is lost, even at room temperature and even if removed fro...
FDTC
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
With physical attacks threatening the security of current cryptographic schemes, no security policy can be developed without taking into account the physical nature of computation....
FSE
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1998
Springer
In this paper we discuss PRNGs: the mechanisms used by real-world secure systems to generate cryptographic keys, initialization vectors, "random" nonces, and other values...
FC
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
In this paper we consider the problem of efficiently locating cryptographic keys hidden in gigabytes of data, such as the complete file system of a typical PC. We describe efficie...
DSN
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Cryptography has become an indispensable mechanism for securing systems, communications and applications. While offering strong protection, cryptography makes the assumption that ...