On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Rich Collyer <rcoll...@ironkey.com> wrote: > My primary interest is to ensure that the content of an NSSecureTextField > and any times I extract the string from it, the memory is not paged out, or > cached.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/security/security.html says: -- Indeed, many types of data, such as hashes, unencrypted versions of sensitive data, and authentication tokens, should generally not be written to disk due to the potential for abuse. This raises an interesting problem. There is no good way to deal with this in user space (unless a program is running as root). -- -- Finlay _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
