Alternate egd socket

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Werner Koch:
> IMHO, if someone is able to access the random seed file, he will also
> be able to access the secret keyring ... well, and then he loads it
> down starts a dictionary attack and in kost cases he will be able to
> get the passphrase.

Bah, dictionary attack... if you're root anyway, wait until the user
starts up GnuPG, and trace its read() calls. Bingo.

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