> When you close a laptop, Windows (or Mac OS X, or Linux, or what-have-you) > takes a snapshot of memory contents and writes it to disk. This can be a > really big problem, since encryption keys, passphrases, and so forth are > written out in the process. For instance, if you have gpg-agent set up to > cache your passphrase, your passphrase will probably be written to the > hibernation file, unless the GnuPG devs have taken heroic measures to > prevent this.
This is an OS feature, not a hardware feature. Turn off hibernation. Encrypt your swap file(s) or for Windows, go to system options and turn off swap and reboot in safe mode, defrag your disk and delete any remaining swap file. Better yet, uninstall Windows and set up a nice Linux or BSD! Encrypted swap on Linux and BSD is trivial to set up and works a treat! P.S. Robert, how about trimming your line lengths! _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
