There's still a big difference (in the real world) between writing to
RAM and writing to disk. Data written to disk could be recovered weeks
later, depending on the machine's usage, and it's right to be
concerned about keys ending up there.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Clark Cox <clarkc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When an attacker has physical access to the machine, all bets are off.
> If you're worried about someone being able to power off the machine
> and remove the disk drive, then you've already lost.
>
> --
> Clark S. Cox III
> clarkc...@gmail.com
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