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Re: win32/memory locking
From: Werner Koch <wk () GNUPG ORG>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:07:44 +0100
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, John Wiltshire wrote:
Note that the PGP implementation uses a device driver (PGPmemlock.sys) to lock pages into memory and prevent them from being swapped out. I am unsure as to the motives of the GPG team if they have not implemented a similar feature, but smells like FUD to me.
Mainly a lack of time hinders the implementation of such a driver. And frankly, I don't think it does make much sense to do so because you can attack 99.9% of all Windows boxes by other and simpler means. If a customer of mine would demand such a thing, I am going to write it of course. Werner -- Werner Koch <wk () gnupg org> GNU Privacy Guard (http://www.gnupg.org) Free Software Foundation Europe (http://www.fsfeurope.org) [Please see X-* mail header for OpenPGP key info]
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