Re: storing crypto key in CPU registers

Casper Dik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.programming
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Some of these registers are used internally.  But maybe at least one 
>of them is available to store up to 80 bits of crypto key, in a 
>location that is not coredumped or swapfiled?

Operating systems generally include all registers in the core dump;
they're also saved in won kernel stacks which are often swappable.

Casper
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