... exporting windows protected private key

Yes, it is possible to export use private keys and machine private keys. Thanks to mimikatz tool it is easy.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.bloghttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifger.com/img/blank.gif
Just download mimikatz utility from http://www.gentilkiwi.com/outils-s44-t-mimikatz.htm (ZIP direct link).

After downloading extract content of the ZIP file. Run mimikatz utility and in the command prompt enter:

dumpkey /force /medium

All user and machine private keys will be exported in pfx file (password:mimikatz).

Enjoy!

... windows internals tools

A set of utilities I find useful to inspect Windows internals: http://www.nirsoft.net/

... linux monitoring with nmon

When using my Linux desktop things sometimes turn bad. Disk spins, CPU maxed everything's so slow.
WTF is happening to my system?
A lot of utilities will give me an overview: top, htop, iotop etc.

nmon to rule them all, nmon to find them,
nmon to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Nmon is a Swiss knife when you want to know what's happening under the hood of your PreCious ...

Nmon is also able to collect data for later processing.