using insecure memory

[Michael Still]

I presume this would make it suid root, because when I run gpg as root I never see this insecure
memory message. Is the message just because root can look at other user's memory spaces? Or is there
another reason as well?

Thanks,
Michael

"John C. Place" wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:39:27AM +0100, Robert Marano wrote:
> > When I use GPG, I constantly get the message "gpg: using insure memory." What does this mean and
> > how do I make my memory secure?
> >
> One of two ways:
>
>         - Set the SUID bin on the gpg exec (chmod u+s gpg)
>
>         - Put the "--no-secmem-warning" in your config file
>
> John
>
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