That actually poses something I've often wondered, is there any operating system that can encrypt the contents of RAM, and decrypt on access? I bet the performance would blow hard but as a proof of concept it would be interesting!
To my knowledge once you turn off the power, whatever was in a PCs RAM fades away a short time later, and not everything in the world is obviously a PC. But during runtime, the only serious protection is trust in your operating systems correctness, which isn't always OpenBSD.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
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