From: Andrea Conti <alyf@alyf.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Can I retrieve my SSL key?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:09:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4CE4ED.8050504@alyf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw0qpWXynPAKBRE+HQ2OrCLTad4GLvojAppSUJa29Q2ukA@mail.gmail.com>
On 18/08/11 03.23, Grant wrote:
> I just accidentally overwrote my SSL certificate key. Is there any
> way to retrieve it? Possibly some sort of export since I haven't
> restarted apache2 yet?
If apache keeps the certificate file open after reading it (I doubt
that's the case, but if you have lsof installed you should check just to
make sure) and you didn't restart it, you could try this method:
http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/01/27/recovering-open-but-unlinked-file-data
Otherwise, assuming you're on ext2/ext3, ext3undel works quite well,
*provided that you stop any writes to the affected volume ASAP*, e.g. by
remounting it read-only.
If the data hasn't been overwritten, carving tools should work too, as
the ASCII-armor of the certificate provides an easily recognizable
pattern and the file is almost certainly small enough to fit within a
single FS block.
andrea
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-18 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-18 1:23 [gentoo-user] {OT} Can I retrieve my SSL key? Grant
2011-08-18 1:27 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-18 1:37 ` Grant
2011-08-18 1:45 ` Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
2011-08-18 1:59 ` Grant
2011-08-18 2:24 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-18 7:18 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-08-18 8:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-08-18 9:41 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-18 10:09 ` Andrea Conti [this message]
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