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From: Jonathan Benedicto
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:36

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prunesquallor wrote:
> 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.

Write over the memory with 0's. Eg:

AnsiString Key = "123456799";

DoSomething( Key );

SecureZeroMemory( Key.c_str(), Key.Length() );

HTH

Jonathan

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