PGP swap to disk?

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:55:59 +0200


Art Hampton <arth@pacsg.css.mot.com> writes:


> My admin is balking at making GPG setuid root to prevent swaps to disk.
echo "no-secmem-warning" >>~/.gnupg/options and you get rid of the warning. It does not make sense to prevent gpg from paging secrets out to disk while on the other side you are not the admin. The admin can do nearly everything and chances that you have a malicious admin is IMHO higher than attacks based on reading the swap space. -- Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013