Re: pasting of passphrases please?

[Jens Prüfer <jens pruefer gmx de>]

Hi,

> Other than the non-pagable memory issue, any application can be
> registered to listen to clipboard changes, but that's not really in
> our security domain because then the user's session has already been
> compromised.

Would that not also be true for keyboard entry?

> No, any contents of non-pagable memory would be lost when your system
> suspends or hibernates.  In the case of gnome-keyring, if your
> screensaver is set to lock, the contents are removed from memory
> completely when it locks, including suspend or hibernation.

Ah, thank you for the hint. I did not know that. But now that I read it,
it makes perfect sense :) All the more reason to make clipboard memory
non-pageable.

Cheers

Jens