PGP swap to disk?

[Werner Koch]

Art Hampton <arth@pacsg.css.mot.com> writes:

> My admin is balking at making GPG setuid root to prevent swaps to disk.

echo "no-secmem-warning" >>~/.gnupg/options

and you get rid of the warning.  It does not make sense to prevent
gpg from paging secrets out to disk while on the other side you are
not the admin.  The admin can do nearly everything and chances that
you have a malicious admin is IMHO higher than attacks based on
reading the swap space.


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