On Jun 8, 2004, at 9:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

And of course, the article didn't get it right.  Because of optimizing
compilers, it is *not* trivial to zero passwords.

The full paper does make that point. http://www.stanford.edu/~talg/papers/USENIX04/abstract.html

Me, I run machines with no swap disk if they have important keys on them, and aren't in a very secure facility. A master decryption key is needed at boot time, of course.

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