On 5/17/07, Alessandro Vesely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. That may happen as an undocumented side effect on some > (or all) OS versions, and is not what the function is meant to do. > The function keeps the page in memory. The OS is still free to back > it up whenever it thinks it is convenient to do so.
The documentation clearly states: "These pages are guaranteed not to be written to the pagefile while they are locked." Assuming the documentation is accurate, VirtualLock() should be safe for security applications. -- RPM _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
