Win32 internals

[Malte Gell]

Am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2002 06:46 schrieb Steve Kinney:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a FAQ or similar documentation that describes the
> special issues in porting GnuPG to Windows?  I am especially
> interested in the RNG (how it collects entropy) and the problem
>
> of allocating memory that is not swapped out to disk.

Hi,

I think Werner is right very much, Windows has so many security holes, th=
ey=20
make this issue really a minor one ...

but Win NT 4 offers a way to clean the swapfile at shutdown, you can find=
 the=20
needed registry entry here :

http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/wipeswap.html

Win 9x/ME/2K/XP may have something similar, I don't know

regards,
Malte