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The moment that a string of text appears on your screen, it is passed through between many different functions (and even pieces of hardware, with textures being
by grenoire 6y ago
The moment that a string of text appears on your screen, it is passed through between many different functions (and even pieces of hardware, with textures being stored on the GPU VRAM) and has unencrypted copies laying all around in memory as the application is running.
Any part of the space in which these copies exist being compromised will mean that your encryption is useless in the end.
- rosswilson 6y agoYou have to draw the line somewhere. Otherwise we'd be saying that HTTPS/TLS is not secure since the webpage is rendered to your monitor unencrypted. I agree with the parent quote: > I’ve found statements like these to not contribute very much towards solving any practical security problems.
- vultour 6y agoBut HTTP/TLS indeed is not secure from the point of your local machine. Its entire point is protection of data in transit.