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How to recover RSA private key in a coredump of ssh-agent - Sapheads HackJam 2009 Challenge 6

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Last week or so I joined CLGT to take part in HackJam 2009 by Sapheads. AFAIK this is the first CTF that Sapheads organizes, but they had done a very good job. To most people's surprise, the contest attacted quite a lot of teams from around the world, and it had quickly become an international competition. Did I tell you that we're the winner ? Ha ha ha this is our very first win since the name CLGT was born. BTW, HackJam 2009 was a success because Sapheads had kept their promise which is to "provide challenges that greatly resemble real world scenarios and environments, at the same time, adding fun and educational ingredients to them". We really had fun ^_^, not disturbing pains *_*, in solving the challenges. Thank you Sapheads! We're looking forward to HackJam 2010. I promised to some people in #sapheads that I would release some writeups about the challenges after the contest ended, and here they are. Sorry for the delay, I have been busy working with v

Flickr's API Signature Forgery Vulnerability

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Flickr's API Signature Forgery Vulnerability Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo Date Published: Sep. 28, 2009 Advisory ID: MOCB-01 Advisory URL: http://netifera.com/research/flickr_api_signature_forgery.pdf Title: Flickr's API Signature Forgery Vulnerability Remotely Exploitable: Yes 1. Vulnerability Description Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images. In order to allow independent programmers to expand its services, Flickr offers a fairly comprehensive web-service API that allows programmers to create applications that can perform almost any function a user on the Flickr site can do. The Flickr's API consists of a set of callable methods, and some API endpoints. To perform an action using the Flickr's API, you need to select a calling convention, send a request to its endpoint specifying a method and some arguments, and will receive