-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:07:16AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Just continuing to think (or maybe not think ;-) about password managers /
[...] I don't know of the others (I never felt the need for a PW manager myself) but... > * during hibernation (or maybe suspend and resume): (I use neither at the > present time, but, one stores the machine's state (including RAM) to disk, > the > other stores the (CPU) state to RAM while preserving the other contents of > RAM.) Hibernation could result in the plaintext of passwords being stored on > disk while the power is off, making the plaintext passwords vulnurable if the > machine is stolen. ...that would be why, should you suspend to disk and care about privacy, you'd put your swap onto an encrypted partition (not only passwords are vulnerable -- many things in RAM like unlocked private keys, session keys etc. are potential targets). Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrCLNwACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYOOACePFCCOvj4GdwrZ2izKq9rO2cF /2sAn11O8aeEMHFvsNO/buej8yWfVmpP =WHsE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
