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diff --git a/src/crypter.cpp b/src/crypter.cpp
index 411a1ee4c1..181b8fa00a 100644
--- a/src/crypter.cpp
+++ b/src/crypter.cpp
@@ -17,12 +17,6 @@ bool CCrypter::SetKeyFromPassphrase(const SecureString& strKeyData, const std::v
if (nRounds < 1 || chSalt.size() != WALLET_CRYPTO_SALT_SIZE)
return false;
- // Try to keep the key data out of swap (and be a bit over-careful to keep the IV that we don't even use out of swap)
- // Note that this does nothing about suspend-to-disk (which will put all our key data on disk)
- // Note as well that at no point in this program is any attempt made to prevent stealing of keys by reading the memory of the running process.
- mlock(&chKey[0], sizeof chKey);
- mlock(&chIV[0], sizeof chIV);
-
int i = 0;
if (nDerivationMethod == 0)
i = EVP_BytesToKey(EVP_aes_256_cbc(), EVP_sha512(), &chSalt[0],
@@ -44,12 +38,6 @@ bool CCrypter::SetKey(const CKeyingMaterial& chNewKey, const std::vector<unsigne
if (chNewKey.size() != WALLET_CRYPTO_KEY_SIZE || chNewIV.size() != WALLET_CRYPTO_KEY_SIZE)
return false;
- // Try to keep the key data out of swap
- // Note that this does nothing about suspend-to-disk (which will put all our key data on disk)
- // Note as well that at no point in this program is any attempt made to prevent stealing of keys by reading the memory of the running process.
- mlock(&chKey[0], sizeof chKey);
- mlock(&chIV[0], sizeof chIV);
-
memcpy(&chKey[0], &chNewKey[0], sizeof chKey);
memcpy(&chIV[0], &chNewIV[0], sizeof chIV);