News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing the computer's PRNG. Parent comment

Re:Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing th... by rorrr2 on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:48PM (#6042991)
> They could just send NSL to amazon for full memory dump and hdd clones of the virtual machine in question

If everything is encrypted (disk, communications) and keys aren't stored in memory / CPU cache, then that won't work.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing th... by venomsnake on Monday July 15, 2013 @03:07AM (#6044130)
Unless amazon have homomorphic encryption services how exactly will you be able to do something with the vm without having the keys in memory? NSA just have to wait to fire it up.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing th... by yen223 on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:41PM (#6043567)
"If"
[ Parent | on HN ]