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aes-finder
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aes-finder

Utility to find AES keys in running processes

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What it is

Utility to find AES keys in running processes

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-05 18:29:04 UTC to 2020-09-06 15:18:45 UTC.

012020-09-05 18:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-05 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 5, 18:002020-09-05 19:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-05 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-05 20:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-05 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-05 21:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-05 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-05 22:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-05 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-05 23:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 01:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 02:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 03:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 04:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 6, 04:002020-09-06 05:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 06:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 07:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 08:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 09:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 10:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 11:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 12:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 13:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 14:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-06 15:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-06 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 6, 15:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 5, 18:002020-09-05 18:00:00 UTC2020-09-05 19:00:00 UTC110
Sep 5, 19:002020-09-05 19:00:00 UTC2020-09-05 20:00:00 UTC000
Sep 5, 20:002020-09-05 20:00:00 UTC2020-09-05 21:00:00 UTC000
Sep 5, 21:002020-09-05 21:00:00 UTC2020-09-05 22:00:00 UTC000
Sep 5, 22:002020-09-05 22:00:00 UTC2020-09-05 23:00:00 UTC000
Sep 5, 23:002020-09-05 23:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 00:002020-09-06 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 01:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 01:002020-09-06 01:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 02:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 02:002020-09-06 02:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 03:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 03:002020-09-06 03:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 04:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 04:002020-09-06 04:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 05:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 05:002020-09-06 05:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 06:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 06:002020-09-06 06:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 07:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 07:002020-09-06 07:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 08:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 08:002020-09-06 08:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 09:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 09:002020-09-06 09:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 10:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 10:002020-09-06 10:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 11:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 11:002020-09-06 11:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 12:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 12:002020-09-06 12:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 13:00:00 UTC110
Sep 6, 13:002020-09-06 13:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 14:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 14:002020-09-06 14:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 15:00:00 UTC000
Sep 6, 15:002020-09-06 15:00:00 UTC2020-09-06 16:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
EE84M3i·Sep 6, 2020
I took a skim of the source[1] -- I think that it's looking for an expanded set of round keys[2] using their expected layout in memory (accounting for endian flips, forward/reverse ordering, 128/192/256 bit variants, and enc/dec). If a matching region of memory is found, the first round key is the main key. [1]: https://github.com/MantechUser/aes-finder/blob/master/aes-fi... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_key_schedule
In AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory

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