Passwords can sit on disk for years

John Gilmore gnu at toad.com
Wed Jun 9 01:54:04 EDT 2004


> Really, a "red page" needs to be "red" all the way through all levels of
> virtualization.  Very low level, or even hardware, support might even prove
> useful - e.g., if for whatever reason the data in the physical page frame
> needs to be copied (after a soft ECC error?), zero the previous page frame.)

Intel, Microsoft and Hollywood are solving this for us.  Their new
hardware can't be virtualized, so it can't leak the
monopolists/oligopolists' keys.  In their scheme, of course, OUR keys
don't get the same level of protection as monopolist keys.

	John

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