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0 pointsnottorp1y ago0 comments

> and encrypt your passwords at rest

I haven't turned off my desktop this year. How does encryption at rest help?

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My password manager locks when I lock my screen. You can configure it to lock after some time.

The database is encrypted at rest.

Locking is not sufficient: it would need to overwrite the memory where passwords were decrypted to. With virtual memory, this becomes harder.

When your old hard drive turns up on ebay.

nottorpOP1y ago

It's not safe to sell SSDs is it?

And even if it were, who would buy a used SSD with unknown durability gone?

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