Re: passing username/passwd between two processes securely...

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Hello, Arnaud.

"Arnaud Debaene" <adebaene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Scherbina Vladimir wrote:
>> - debugging your applications using SoftIce or another system
>> debugger to find the place where your applications generate private
>> keys
>
> This last point is moot : there is *no* way to protect oneself from a
> system debugger from software only

google for Themida, StarForce, Armadillo, AsProtect, ExeCryptor.

> (the only way is to rely on specialized, "black box" hardware), so it's
> basically useless to speak about it : At one point or another, you must
> trust your user (or more exactly, the administrator, who is the only one
> who can use system debuggers) : there is no way around it.
>
> Arnaud
> MVP - VC
>

--
Scherbina Vladimir


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