NAME

decryptcore — decrypt a core dump of the operating system

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The decryptcore utility first decrypts keyfile using privatekeyfile and then uses the resulting key to decrypt encryptedcore saved by savecore(8). The result is saved in core.

Alternatively a user can decrypt a core dump numbered dumpnr from the crashdir directory. In this case a dump key from the key.# file is used and the result is saved in the vmcore.# file where “#” corresponds to dumpnr.

By default decryptcore does not overwrite an old core dump as a user might want to store the core somewhere else for the future. This behaviour can be changed using the -f flag.

The decryptcore utility can be started with the following command line arguments:

-f

Remove a decryped core dump if it already exists.

-L

Write log messages to syslogd(8).

-v

Print or log verbose/debugging information. This option can be specified multiple times to raise the verbosity level.

-p privatekeyfile

Specify location of a private key file which will be used to decrypt a dump key file.

-k keyfile

Specify location of a dump key file.

-e encryptedcore

Specify location of an encrypted core.

-c core

Specify location of a resulting decrypted core dump.

-d crashdir

Specify an alternative crash dump directory. The default crash dump directory is /var/crash.

-n dumpnr

Specify a number of a crash dump to be decrypted.

EXIT STATUS

The decryptcore utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

kgdb(1) (ports/devel/gdb), capsicum(4), dumpon(8), savecore(8), syslogd(8)

AUTHORS

The decryptcore utility was implemented by Konrad Witaszczyk <def@FreeBSD.org>.