PGP swap to disk?

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:48:24 +0200 (MET DST)


Art Hampton wrote:


> What attack is being countered by preventing a swap to disk?
Someone physically examining the harddisk, for Linux for example with some ext2 tools that can undelete deleted files. If this is a risk you need considering depends on your situation. If the NSA is after you you would, if you don't want your little sister to read your fiules you probably won't. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html Finger johanw@xs4all.nl for my PGP public key. PGP-KeyID: 0xD42F80B1