Timeline for Why encrypt data in memory?
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| Apr 6, 2020 at 13:31 | answer | added | Moby Disk | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | Mints97 | "Don't modern operating systems work with virtual memory management so that it is not possible for user-space / user-mode processes to access other processes memory?" no, they don't. At least, not always. Windows lets you access the memory of any process run by the same user via an API. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 12:45 | answer | added | makerofthings7 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 16:52 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 8:52 | answer | added | Lachezar Balev | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 0:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/248210147170717696 | ||
| Sep 18, 2012 at 13:35 | answer | added | Robert | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 12:52 | answer | added | Thomas Pornin | timeline score: 31 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 12:44 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 15 characters in body; edited tags |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 12:16 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 18, 2012 at 11:21 | comment | added | Durandal | Data may be swapped out to the page file, and many OS do not clear the page file when shutting down. With physical access to the machine the page file can be easily accessed and searched (and there are ways to make it more likely that data of intrest is swapped out, and then one could pull the power cord to prevent the OS from shutting down...). Still, in memory encryption only makes it more work to access the encrypted data, since the code and key to decrypt it can be obtained by the same method... | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 8:47 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | The problem with encryption is that it only shifts the problem to where to store the key. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 8:38 | answer | added | Brian Agnew | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 8:32 | history | asked | user573215 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |