Warning messages.

Ben Woodard ben@valinux.com
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:19:58 -0700


What triggers this message? Is there something that we can do about it
to make our memory secure? Can you say to Unix, "send me this signal
if you need to swap a page?" or "Don't swap this page or else I will
have to kill err I mean reboot you."

-ben


> I'm getting this message too, on a remote system (my web host). Anything I
> can do about it?
>
> > On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 04:09:19PM +0200, Marcin Okraszewski wrote:
> > > gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> >
> > This is a serious warning that your secret keys could end up in a disk
> > swapfile or whatever. If you're happy to live with that risk (e.g. on a
> > standalone private workstation) then you can put
> >
> > no-secmem-warning
> >
> > in .gnupg/options to make it go away.
> >
>