Bug: sensitive data written to insecure memory

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Apr 4 14:55:04 CEST 2001


On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Encrypted swap doesn't mean swapping to an encrypted block device.
> It's better to implement this at a higher level.  So you can use
> per-process secret keys and discard the keys if the process ceases to

The Hurd is going to implement it in it's Paging server which the
right place to do it.

SCNR,

  Werner

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