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They crush all disks. On Oct 4, 7:07 am, Alexander Konovalenko <alex...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to process sensitive information in my app and want to > prevent it from ever getting written to disk in an unencrypted form. I > hope that all disks in the Google data centers are properly sanitized > before being disposed of (are they?). But defense in depth never > hurts. > > The processing of sensitive data will occur both in front-end and > back-end instances. The data has to be stored unencrypted in memory. > Do the appservers running Python and Java instances use any form of > unencrypted swap? SSD, hard disk, whatever. If so, I will file a > feature request to provide a way to lock memory pages from being > swapped out (using the mlock() system call). Note that even when there > is plenty of free RAM, the OS can still swap some pages out. > > Alexander -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
