Re: Passphrase andswapfile(DavidPicón Álvarez)

David Picón Álvarez eleuteri@myrealbox.com
Thu Jun 6 20:01:02 2002


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Hi,


> I'm pretty sure that can't be done in Windows NT, 2000, or even 9x
versions. IIRC, only in Windows 3.1 and earlier was this possible.

With the risk of contradicting those who may be wiser than me:

Start >> settings >> control pannel >> system >> virtual memory >> disable
virtual memory (not recommended).

> It is possible, with a kernel-mode device driver, to allocate RAM from the
non-paged memory pool. The OS will never swap these chunks of RAM out to
disk. I believe the last PGP Desktop version
> included such a driver to store keys, etc in memory on Windws NT/2000.

I have the feeling (even though I haven't examined the source much) that
something like that would be too evil due to architecture dependence.

At any rate, even with the 512mb of RAM I don't dare to disable virtual
memory *shudder*

--David.



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