Secure text editor?

[Roscoe]

Swap is indeed optional.

I've been running Debian with X/e16/screen/vim/irssi/xmms/mozilla for
a a while (a year? or two?) and never noticed any performance
difference. I doubt anyone else would either.
(DDR2-800 2048MB, 2GHz dual core Athlon, before that DDR-400 1024MB,
2GHz single core Athlon).

So imho its perfectly feasible to run a desktop with a decent amount
of memory without swap.


On 5/15/07, Zach Himsel <z.himsel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/14/07, Peter S. May <me at psmay.com> wrote:
> > On Linux, swap space is its own partition
> I just realized something. You have the option to NOT use swap
> space in Linux. Does this mean that there is no memory written
> to disk? If so, then it might be plausible to either have a
> dedicated machine with no swapfile for the encryption or
> temporarily turn off swap for the encryption/decryption process
> and then re-enable it after.
>
> - --
> Zach Himsel <z.himsel[at]gmail.com> <tinyurl.com/yjxo8s>
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