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2000 Jan 13
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Inhibiting swapping with mlock
There's one vulnerability that's bugged me for some time. It applies
to nearly all crypto software, including ssh. That's the swapping of
sensitive info (such as keys and key equivalents) onto hard drives
where they could possibly be recovered later.
The Linux kernel provides a system call, mlock(), that inhibits
swapping of a specified region of virtual memory. It locks it into
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