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

William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Mon, 18 May 98 23:47:36 -0500

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In <199805190432.XAA18713@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com>, on 05/18/98
   at 11:32 PM, "Loren J. Rittle" <rittle@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com> said:

>>> 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?

Obviously you haven't noticed what a pig winblows software is (I think
they are writting everything in VB <g>.) Average desktop is running
32-64Mb. You can not operate win95/winNT with the standard complement of
apps without a swapfile on such a system.

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