Hi! >> If I wanted to protect my mona lisa, I would >> encrypt it and put the key in the first 640k >> where I can be sure the BIOS wipes them :-p > > You can only encrypt the harddisk, not the RAM.
Yes you can encrypt and/or compress RAM, but of course you get lower performance. Extreme case would be encrypting all pages apart from the one you are using, automatically, hand having a task which re-encrypts all pages as soon as you no longer touch them for a short time. For important data such as keyrings, it is certainly worth the effort to encrypt it in RAM and only decrypt it at the moment when you actually have to work with the real data... > When using FDE the RAM > is always unencrypted by design, no way. What is FDE? > If you encrypt something in RAM you can not see it. :) If things were like that, you could not encrypt disk, either. > Usually you have to hide more then just 1 MB. Not if you use encryption, then you only have to hide keys. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
