How do you plan to prevent passwords, plaintext, etc. being saved in swap files, etc.?

Munge the memory where they've been stored. There is really no way to protect absolutely, especially on something as unsecure as a PC where someone malevolent could just install a keyboard logger... It comes down to a "how-much-is-enough" question. -jon ( --------[ Jonathan D. Cooper ]--------[ entropy@intnet.net ]-------- ) ( PGP 2.6.2 keyprint: 31 50 8F 82 B9 79 ED C4 5B 12 A0 35 E0 9B C0 01 )