non-functioning --switch?

[Wesley J Landaker]

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On Tuesday 24 October 2000 12:49am, raf wrote:
> 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.

> nah. leave the message there.
> otherwise they might be lulled
> into a false sense of security :)

Or perhaps just a little different message. It seems there are two 
cases:

1. You don't have secure memory currently because of your system 
configuration:
gpg: Please note that you don't have secure memory.

2. You don't have secure memory because your system does not support it 
at all:
gpg: Please note that this system is incapable of providing secure 
memory.

That way, the message would be a little more clear on (for instance) 
Windows.

Just a suggestion. =)

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