How did the scopes for the CryptProtectMemory function end up in a strange order?

Raymond ChenApril 23, 2015Apr 23, 201504/23/15

A few weeks ago, I left an exercise: Propose a theory as to why the names and values of the scopes for the Crypt­Protect­Memory function are the way they are. I didn't know the answer when I posed the exercise, but I went back and dug into it. The Crypt­Protect­Memory function started out as an internal function back in ...