Comment by ErroneousBosh
14 hours ago
Exactly. How do you play back the encrypted DVD without having the decryption key right there on the player for everyone to find?
14 hours ago
Exactly. How do you play back the encrypted DVD without having the decryption key right there on the player for everyone to find?
Keepass has an option to "encrypt in memory" certain passwords, sensitive information.
The point of encryption is often times about what other software or hardware attacks are minimized or eliminated.
However, if someone figures out access to a running system, theres really no way to both allow an app to run and keep everything encrypted. It certainly is possible, like the way keepass encrypts items in memory, but if an attacker has root on a server, they just wait for it to be accessed if not outright find the key that encrypted it.
This is to say, 99.9% of the apps and these platforms arn't secure against this type of low level intrusion.
Even Keepass's "encrypt in memory" option leaves that encryption key in memory, so it can auto-type or copy passphrases into form fields. It's an extra step, but not unbreakable.