i doubt it -- after all, it has to stored somewhere and as far as i understood the flashing and the layout, flashing rootfs and emmc(?) will effectively replace _all_ content with the default data from the images.
What is the fact about this issue?
Should security code be reset when both rootfs+eMMc -flash is done?
For me it does not reset and after the flash when the device boots up
it will ask me the security code (which I do remember and is not 12345) or it won't boot futher.
I have also "security-lock phone when not used in 10 mins" in the system settings, if that makes the difference.
I also do not find anything looking like DES-encrypted password from /dev/mtd1
Edit: I take it back the last sentence at least with my current phone. Now there seems to be two occasions of "lock_code" and after the second one there is a DES-encrypted string.
But with my previous N900, there was only one "lock_code" and no DES-encrypted string after that.
I have difficulty to understand why Nokia chose DES as a hash-algorithm for Maemo5?
I know the US stupid IP-laws and software-patents are to blame, but isn't there (US) patent free strong hash-algorithms also?
I think SHA-1 is not patent encumbered and it would be much more difficult to break
