On 23/08/12 22:15, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
But if the password is used to load or save encrypted documents, then
the contents of the document (which the so carefully erased password
protects) is loaded into memory in plain-text, and is equally readable
by an adversary that has access to the virtual memory of your process,
and might get paged out to disk. So what's the win?
that is true for the document that is protected by the password.
but in practice that same password may not only give access to that one
document, but also let an attacker do other nefarious things like log on
to twitter and impersonate the user's cat.
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