insecure memory warning

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, hardpack wrote:

>   gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> 
> what does this mean?  how bad is this? 

See the man page under BUGS and option --no-secmem-warning

> also, is --symmetric the correct option to use?  and how strong is
> the encryption when there is no passing of keys?  

You give a key when you use --symmetric (-c).  The key is derived from
the passphrase you have to enter.  The security depends on a quality
of the passphrase.


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