Not really, like cooper said, you enter the password, and it is encrypted, in the ram, where it is locked, meaning that it will *always* stay in ram untill the power is turned off and go nowhere else. It is encrypted in ram, and the hash is checked against the stored hash. This is the only place that the password can get out, but it is in encrypted form. Usually, there is a pretty sophisticated way of stopping people from even getting at the wncrypted hash in the first lace