Core dump privacy during application failure

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to core dump generation during application fault handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for privacy preservation of core dump data during application fault handling. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for privacy preservation of core dump data during application fault handling can be provided. The method can include receiving a crash signal for an application and generating a core dump with object data for the application. The method further can include obfuscating the object data in the core dump and writing the core dump with obfuscated object data to a file. In this way, the privacy of the object data in the core dump can be preserved.

主权项

1. A method for privacy preservation of core dump data during application fault handling, the method comprising:
receiving a crash signal for an application; generating a core dump with object data for the application in response to receiving the crash signal, the object data in the core dump indicating information related to different threads of the application and a state of the application; obfuscating the object data in the core dump before writing the core dump to a file by utilizing symmetric key encryption to encrypt the object data in the core dump using an encryption key from the core dump, the obfuscation of the object data resulting in the information related to the different threads of the application and the state of the application remaining private; and, writing the core dump with obfuscated object data to the file.