On 01.06.2008 07:44, Phil wrote: > > > Other parts of losetup (and mount) always properly > > sanitize key material, > > excluding 'kill -9' type events. > > 2. I was under the impression SIGKILL couldn't be > trapped or ignored in C. How then does loop-aes catch > a kill -9 and sanitize keys in memory before exiting? He said that losetup/mount can't defend against 'kill -9' as they are "just" userspace-programs. Loop-AES is kernel-mode, so it's a whole other story. And btw. That whole thing has nothing to do with using "C" or any other programming language, in the end everything is machine-language anyway. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
