using insecure memory

[John C. Place]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 10:10:16AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> 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?
> 
GnuPG locks memory so it is not swapped to disk. In theory a person
could use swapped info to compromise a key. Some platforms (FreeBSD for
one) require root access to lock pages.

At least that is my understanding.

John

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