Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writingcollege books]

[mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse)]

> > Simple example: There's no way in pure Java that I can lock a
> > process in memory.  Wrt this list, that has a lot of security
> > ramifications especially on shared processors.  Sure makes hiding
> > secrets a lot harder.
> Please explain that issue.

It makes it impossible to keep things like crypto keys out of swap
space.  (Looking through swap space is a relatively well-known forensic
technique for finding things like crypto keys or passwords.)

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