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Protecting sensitive data in software products and in generating core dumps

  • US 10,496,839 B2
  • Filed: 12/08/2017
  • Issued: 12/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of protecting sensitive data when a core dump is generated, said method comprising:

  • updating, at run-time of an executable file, by one or more processors, a secure data section of a memory of a computer, to include storage information of sensitive data indicating a location of the sensitive data;

    scanning, by the one or more processors, the memory of the computer to find the secure data section in the memory;

    acquiring, by the one or more processors, the sensitive data, by utilizing the storage information to locate the sensitive data corresponding to the storage information;

    processing, by the one or more processors, the sensitive data to hide the sensitive data, wherein hiding the sensitive data is not reversible; and

    generating, by the one or more processors, a core dump file, wherein the core dump file does not comprise the sensitive data.

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