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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: clemahieu on November 04, 2015, 04:49:01 AM



Title: Password fan memory scraping risk mitigation
Post by: clemahieu on November 04, 2015, 04:49:01 AM
I put up a short blurb about a technique we use for mitigating the risk of memory scraping encryption keys.  I haven't seen others do it, we call it a password fan.  Basically we break apart the key in to a thousand or so separate places in memory and only reassemble it when actual signing needs to be done.

https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks/wiki/Password-fan

It's trivial to implement, I thought others may want to copy the technique.