[105852] in Cypherpunks
Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows") (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Mon Nov 23 18:39:32 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:27:05 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> From: "Jim Adler" <jadler@soundcode.com>
> Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows")
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:47:48 -0800
> SCNSM 1.0 Beta, a non-swappable memory allocator for Windows 3.x/95/98, is
> available and can be downloaded from
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> The SCNSM driver supports allocation of non-swappable memory on Windows
> 3.x/95/98. The principal design goal of SCNSM is to provide memory that will
> not be swapped to disk, under any circumstances. Typically, security
> applications require such memory to store private keys, passwords, and
> sensitive intermediate results of cryptographic calculations.
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Sounds cool, but I have a couple of questions:
1. Is it OpenSource?
2. I assume since it never swaps to disk the memory requirements for the
computer are large. What is the minimum suggested if one runs say
5 apps that each require 16M each, 5*16M & OS overhead? And what is
the suggested OS overhead with no swap to disk?
(OK, that last one might be a 3rd question)
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