[PATCH v2 0/7] makedumpfile security key filtering with eppic

Aravinda Prasad aravinda at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Nov 15 07:55:19 EST 2012



On 2012-11-15 01:45, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:36:53PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> 
> [..]
>> The main intention is to remove confidential information from the dump
>> file, like ssh keys etc., which could be just few bytes, hence, may not
>> reduce the size of the dump significantly.
> 
> Where are these ssh keys? Are these in user space memory or kernel memory?
> How would one know the location of these keys?


Check out my previous mail which explains the keyring scenario in
detail. ssh key was a bad example.

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
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Aravinda




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