debfx·há 11 anos·discussAn attacker may be able to read the unencrypted swap space on disk. In this scenario it makes sense to encrypt passwords in memory and store the key in a locked page.
debfx·há 11 anos·discussThis isn't true anymore.Newer versions store a SHA-256 hash of the header inside the encrypted XML.At least KeePass >= 2.20 and KeePassX 2.0 >= alpha3 support this. I haven't checked other implementations.