secure memory for decryption buffer

Robin H. Johnson robbat2 at gentoo.org
Sat Mar 17 00:18:14 CET 2012


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 05:31:26PM +0100, Martin Stenberg wrote:
> I'm writing a password manager and want it to use a gpg-encrypted file
> for storing passwords. I figured that gpgme would be the right tool to
> use to integrate gpg encryption/decryption in my application. However,
> I'm unsure if gpgme stores decrypted data in secure memory. I don't want
> passwords to be swapped to disk.
This sounds very similar to the Debian pwstore application.
https://github.com/formorer/pwstore

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