How to Protect Your Secret in Memory

DOI

10.2991/mecae-18.2018.143How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hardware, operating system, privacy, secret.

Abstract

Due to the limitations of computer architecture, any sensitive data is in clear text in the memory. If we enter sensitive data, such as a card password, into a computer, the data is also plaintext. It leaves the window for the adversary to steal your secret. How to protect your secret in the memory? In this paper, we summarize the existing solutions as four kinds, analyzed their advantages and disadvantages. Without changing the hardware, we believe that the necessary modification to the operating system is a more appropriate solution to protect the secret in the memory.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hongwei Zhou
AU  - Jinhui Yuan
PY  - 2018/03
DA  - 2018/03
TI  - How to Protect Your Secret in Memory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Mechanical, Electronic, Control and Automation Engineering (MECAE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 195
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/mecae-18.2018.143
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