Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:57:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ... but I wonder: GPG, AFAIK undertakes some special measures to >> ensure that neither clear text nor private keys are paged out to the >> disk (since it might be recovered from there by "the enemy"). How >> would you lock data in memory in Haskell? Would that be possible? >> >> It seems to me that all participants in this thread have missed this >> point so far. > > You could just mlock() everything allocated by the RTS...
Brute force. :-) Certainly the most simple way to do it. But is that option already here (say in ghc), or would one have to patch the runtime for that? Regards -- Markus _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
