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> I think most systems don't have mlock available for mortal users.
> Right?

I know of no system where anyone but root can use it.

> A better approach is to simply encrypt pages that are swapped out
> (either all swap, or configurable per user or per process).
> 
> I think Markus Friedl implemented that for OpenBSD, and wrote a paper
> about it. I have no idea how hard it would be on the HURD. I guess the
> code would live somewhere in the (default) pager.

It would very simple.  The default pager is many respects a normal user
task like Hurd servers (though it must be careful about many things).  So
something like this is always doable just by modifying that program, which
now just writes pages to disk, to do something different.



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