Would that really work though? If it's possible to identify the seperate keys in memory, what's stopping someone from writing a script to isolate all of they keys and then try them all. Yes it would slow an attacker down, but it would be a slow-down of perhaps a few seconds or minutes -- that is, not so long as to make it impractical to run such an attack. --Nicholas > As for setting up multiple loops to create decoy keys in memory: perhaps a > simple program that writes hundreds or thousands of "camouflage" keys to > memory for use before using loopaes could be handy for the paranoid ... > > It would not be hard to knock up, maybe Perl or Python. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
