Re: Passphrase and swapfile (David Picón Álvarez)

David Picón Álvarez eleuteri@myrealbox.com
Thu Jun 6 15:46:01 2002


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Hi,

> Don't be to worried about your passphrase
> appearing in the swap file.  In a Gb of random
> data being updated every hour or so it's fairly
> likely that your passphrase will appear
> randomly a few times a day too, unless you
> have a whale of a passphrase.

Alright.

I just got interested because I read of forensic software which can extract
information from swapfile, tnd they say it's quite powerful. I suppose it's
more of a theoretical danger, though, since I'm not a public enemy yet :-)

--David.



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