Use |mprotect()| to secure key data ? / was: Re: Proposal: always handle keys in separate process

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Wed Jan 20 12:29:21 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:53:41AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Well, I am not happy with the solution because it adds *lots* of extra
> overhead (not noticeable on today's multi-GHz desktop machines but on
> small embedded machines this bites back).

Serious question: how many small embedded machines that can't afford
another process are running openssh vs dropbear server?

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rgds
Stephen


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