mmozeiko/aes-finder

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1083 stars · 181 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small C++ command-line utility that scans the memory of running processes to locate AES encryption and decryption keys (128, 192, and 256-bit). It works by detecting AES key schedules in process memory and supports searching by PID or process name.

Use cases

• find AES keys in a running process memory
• extract encryption keys from an application for analysis
• recover AES keys used by putty or dropbox
• scan process memory for key schedules
• reverse engineer what crypto keys an app uses

When to choose

• you need to inspect which AES keys a live process holds
• you are doing security research or forensic analysis on local applications
• you want a lightweight single-file tool with no dependencies

When to avoid

• you need to extract keys from disk or encrypted files rather than live memory
• you need a cross-platform GUI or automated production tooling
• you require a maintained project with a license and active support

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

security cryptography reverse-engineering cli security reverse-engineering developer-tools windows cli cpp aes key-recovery memory-scanning forensics command-line linux macos

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