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Simon R Knight (srk@tcp.co.uk)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:23:41 0000
On 17 Jun 98 at 9:14, Jim Adler wrote:
> This issue is a perennial nuisance and really undermines the public's
> confidence in security products. A month or so back, RSA's SecurPC was
> caught with passwords in a swap file (Mike Stay made the original post, I
> believe). After a long thread, it was finally suggested (by Peter Gutmann)
> that "someone" write a set of drivers to allocate truly non-swappable
> memory.
>
> To that end, we are currently developing a set of drivers for Win95 and
> WinNT that will allocate non-swappable memory. The drivers will be released
> into the public-domain in the hope of putting this issue to rest, on Windows
> at least.
This sounds excellent ! Would these drivers actually replace
existing drivers, or work alongside them ?
Is there a technical reason why a only 32 bit drivers are planned, or
is it simply that reduced use of win16 does not justify the work that
would be required ?
Thanks for your comments !
Simon R Knight
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:37 ADT