full-disclosure - Re: Most common keystroke loggers?

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Date: Thu Dec  1 19:53:27 2005
From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave Korn)
Subject: Re: Most common keystroke loggers?

Blue Boar wrote in news:438F448F.402@...evco.com
> Shannon Johnston wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I'm looking for input on what you all believe the most common keystroke
>> loggers are. I've been challenged to write an authentication method (for
>> a web site) that can be secure while using a compromised system.
>
> I don't think that's possible for all compromise situations, given
> today's desktop OS software.

  How about one-time passwords?  Just go ahead and *let* them keylog it all 
they like; by the time they've snarfed a pw, it's no use any more.  (See 
S/Key for more details.)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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