What's the simplest/easiest way to use secure memory (i.e., memory that
won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in
Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD?
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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
What's the simplest/easiest way to use secure memory (i.e., memory that
won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in
Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD?
Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock() that
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:22:29PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock() that way:
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/extending_ruby.html
...but you also have to do so as root. It might be more sane to setup
encrypted