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From: prunesquallor
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:17

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"Eelke" wrote:

> I guess Microsoft wants to prevent the possibility of bringing down a 
> system by locking to much physical pages and therefor keeps the 
> possibility open for swapping the workingset anyway.
>
> In your original post you wrote
> > (the reason being it will hold cryptographic keys that I don't
> > want swapped out)
> Why don't you want them to be swapped out?
>
> Security? AFAIK memory isn't anymore secure then the swapfile.

Well, I guess it depends on the circumstances. If a key has been swapped out 
to the swap file, then it could still be there hours, days or even weeks - 
until that bit of the swap file gets overwritten. So that key is 
recoverable. Whereas a key in memory expires the next time the machine's 
off.

TTFN

JB

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