encryption/decryption without files

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Thu Sep 13 19:50:00 CEST 2012


On 13/09/12 18:34, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> Apparently only half-awake here, this should of course be amended to
> include that since the plaintext is shown in the command line it is also
> available to other users on the system in a process list (e.g. ps)

I just thought of the fact that probably the text can still end up in swap as
well. The text is probably in the memory of the shell.

Peter.

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