GnuPG can't handle some V3 secret keys

Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer at RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Fri May 4 19:03:01 CEST 2001


Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:

> I know about this but there is no need to be worried about it
> because about all modern OSes will SEGV on a NULL pointer
> dereference without a way to exploit it.

This is only true for write operations, BTW.  Some vendors use a
readable zero page for optimizations...

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