Hibernation and secret keys

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:17, dshaw at jabberwocky.com said:

> GPG does have some countermeasures against this sort of thing, but
> given the nature of the problem, they are far from infallible.

For example you can send a HUP to gpg-agent from a suspend event script.
This makes sure that gpg-agent clears its passphrase cache.  It doesn't
help if session keys are still in memory.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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