Re: Non-pageable app
Re: Non-pageable app
- Subject: Re: Non-pageable app
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:24:14 -0700
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Chris Suter <email@hidden> wrote:
>> What am I missing?
>
> If the attacker physically powers off the machine while the page is
> written out to disk, s/he can just read the page off the swap space on
> the HDD. If this page contains, say, an initialization vector, then
> bang you're dead.
When an attacker has physical access to the machine, all bets are off.
If you're worried about someone being able to power off the machine
and remove the disk drive, then you've already lost.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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