secure memory for decryption buffer

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Martin Stenberg <martin at gnutiken.se> asks on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:44:22 +0100

>> ...
>> I'm very interested in knowing more about why keeping things in ram as
>> a protection are a questionable defence these days. Could you please
>> elaborate on this?
>> ...

Take a look at this article:

	J. Alex Halderman and eight others
	Lest we remember: cold-boot attacks on encryption keys
	Communications of the ACM 52(5) 91--98 May 2009
	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1506409.1506429

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