Bug: sensitive data written to insecure memory

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed Apr 4 14:51:09 2001


On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:


> And in Linux, you adjust the change the paging subsystem accordingly.
> It's not that much different, isn't it.
But seems that it cannot be done easly in Linux. You have to watch out for very masty race conditions. With a properly designed kernel these problems can be minimized. Not that easy with a one process kernel consisting of 2.6 million LOC (2.2.19) ;-) Ciao, Werner -- Werner Koch Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur g10 Code et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Privacy Solutions -- Augustinus