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Re: Accessing the Swap


From: "Andrew Haninger" <ahaning () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:25:29 -0400

On 5/2/06, Norbert François <norbertlike () gmail com> wrote:
I've a discussion with a friend of mine about Swap encryption.Now I'd
like to do a sort of "proof of concept", retrieving some "dangerous"
informations in the swap... My problem is that I don't know how to
access this part of the HD-memory :S... Can you help me ?
I can't help you, but I think that those who can will need to know
what OS you're using.

In Linux, I *think* you could just cat your swap partition to a file
and read it that way.

HTH.

-Andy


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