[p2p-hackers] amicima MFP and crypto upgrades

[coderman]

On 12/17/05, Matthew Kaufman <matthew at matthew.at> wrote:
> ...
> Not "always". The right answer is "sometimes".
>
> If you wish to do so, on some systems you can use memory region locking to
> prevent the cryptographic material from being paged out to permanent storage
> media, in theory (see below). ...
>
> However, that's just one of several possible attacks you might want to guard
> against, or other requirements you might have.

very true.  i suppose if you are this concerned about key secrecy
you'd also want to ensure other side channels / application security
is as well protected.

are patches for MF* accepted in general?  is copyright assignment required?

thanks for the detailed response.