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		ygra on March 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are passwords stored in memory safe? But the key is what you authenticate with after all, so why go after the password when reading memory when you can go after the key directly?

niggler on March 18, 2013 [–]

the keys expire, so even if you have it it won't be useful later.

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