Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

to stop private keys being written to disk?

April 26, 2017disk keys private written

0

10 Posted

to stop private keys being written to disk?

1 Answer

0

Posted

Unfortunately not. The VirtualLock() function in the Windows API doesn’t do a proper job: it may prevent small pieces of a process’s memory from being paged to disk while the process is running, but it doesn’t stop the process’s memory as a whole from being swapped completely out to disk when the process is long-term inactive. And Pageant spends most of its time inactive.