password safes for mac

[Bill Frantz]

perry at piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) on Sunday, June 28, 2009 wrote:

>It has problems. Among other things, it only mlocks your session key
>itself into memory, leaving both the AES key schedule (oops!) and the
>decrypted data (oops!) pageable into swap. (Why bother mlocking the text
>of the key if you're not going to lock the key schedule?)

You should probably use the encrypted swap feature on the Mac.

System Preferences -> Security -> Use secure virtual memory.

Cheers - Bill

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