Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shamir, Adi
• van Someren, Nicko

Titel

Playing ‘Hide and Seek’ with Stored Keys

Ist Teil von

• Financial Cryptography, 1999, p.118-124

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 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. These techniques can be used to apply “lunchtime attacks” on signature keys used by financial institutes, or to defeat “authenticode” type mechanisms in software packages.