On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:51, vali...@gmail.com said: > This is under the control of the operating system. Encfs needs around 4MB > of memory to run. It applies mlock() to secure memory blocks, but that > depends on OS support for user-level locking.
Using an encrypted swap partition is a much easier and safer way to achieve this. A decade ago that was not commonly available and thus the mlock trick was introduced to mitigate the problem. However, once someone gets physical access for only a short time, you inevitable entered game over state. Thus all such measures may work in theory but won't stop any real world attacks. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
