non-functioning --switch?

raf raf@comdyn.com.au
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:49:35 +1100


Werner Koch wrote:


> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, John J. Kane wrote:
>
> > ver. 1.0.3 Windows binary, Win95. Verbatim:
> >
> > C:\gnupg\> gpg --no-secmem-warning
> > gpg: Please note that you don't have secure memory
>
> --no-secmem-warning does only work on system which are capable of
> locking memory. There is currently no easy way to do this under
> Windows and I considere to remove this message for Windows. Even
> with a (free) device driver which can be used to protect memory it
> might not make sense at all, given all the other ways to snoop on
> Windows memory or break into the system.
>
> Werner
nah. leave the message there. otherwise they might be lulled into a false sense of security :) raf