Hi Kyle, On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Chris Suter <[email protected]> wrote: >> What am I missing? > > If the attacker physically powers off the machine while the page is > written out to disk, s/he can just read the page off the swap space on > the HDD. If this page contains, say, an initialization vector, then > bang you're dead.
Right, but someone who has physical access to the machine can do whatever they like. They could open the box and probe the memory directly somehow or add a malicious bit of software to get the details later. As someone else pointed out to me, it would kind of make sense if you were worried about the machine being stolen but even then, I suspect it would be beyond your average thief to get the details; I mean you'd expect them to have better sources of income than from stealing. I guess you have to weigh up the risk with the effort involved; I can't see that it's worth the effort. Anyway, this is probably getting a little off-topic. Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
