Re: RSA's SecurPC not-so-"Secur"

Loren J. Rittle (rittle@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com)
Mon, 18 May 1998 23:32:50 -0500

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>> I never said anything about intermediate; I'm saying there are cleartext
>> data remnants all OVER the place from applications and the paging that
>> has occurred during their use; these extents are essentially randomly
>> placed and could contain anything from any time, altho with the
>> probability of finding any specific piece of data tending to 0 as time
>> passes.

> Yes and this is a big problem.

Good grief! With how cheap RAM is these days, why is anyone still
configuring a secure system with swap-to-disk enabled?

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