phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] further limitation: not writing secret to memory

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:27:46 +0200
From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] further limitation: not writing secret to memory


Larry Bugbee (at Thursday, September 19, 2013, 8:45:28 PM):

> But while that or something else might lock on Linux, there might
> be no way to reliably lock on other platforms.

it also does not help on a virtual server