18 Dec
2006
18 Dec
'06
6:13 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:57:59PM +0100, ls-haskell-developer-2006@m-e-leypold.de 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... Best regards Tomasz