Am 06.07.2012 19:27, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>>>> How can the PGP task even be swapped in if it's swapped out and
>>>> needs to
>>>> be swapped back in in order to decrypt itself from the swap file? >_<
>>>
>>> Either the swap file is unencrypted, or PGP is marked non-swappable.
>>> (Yes, you can do that.)
>>
>> Not encrypting the swap file could lead to very interesting data
>> leakage,
>
> Yeah. But it's possible to have the OS zero the page file at shutdown.

Better yet, overwrite it with pseudorandom nonsense.

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