vulnerability with ssh-agent

Keld Jørn Simonsen keld at dkuug.dk
Thu Jul 15 05:09:54 EST 2004


Michael Stevens wrote:

> If its in memory, you should assume that root can see it.

yes, that is of cause true, but I am not sure that the dsa key
is in the memory of the ssh-agent, and I am not sure that it will be
easily visible. I had a try if I could find my dsa key in the /proc/pid/exe
file of the ssh-agent with strings, but I could not find it. 

Does anybody know if ssh-agent has the keys stored in memory, and how?

best regards
keld




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