Confirmation for cached passphrases useful?

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Fri Oct 15 12:55:22 CEST 2010


Am Freitag 15 Oktober 2010 12:28:33 schrieb Werner Koch:

> If there is malicious code running on your machine with access to
> resources under your control, I can only say: game over.  No external
> button will help you here.

That's why we try to restrict the access of malicious code, isn't it?

Following your pessimistic attitude there would hardly be any reason not to 
work as root.


Hauke
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