GPG agent for automated processing

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Thursday 10 April 2003 15:06, darren chamberlain wrote:
> * Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> [2003-04-10 06:49]:
> > [...]The only advantage I can see is that the passphrase is stored
> > in ram and not in the file system[...]
>
> ...until it gets swapped out, of course.

AFAIK, it never gets swapped out if gpg-agent is allowed to lock memory=20
(e.g. if gpg-agent is setuid root).

Regards,
Ingo


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