[Bug 63644] pinentry-qt character length limitation

Ralf Nolden nolden@kde.org
Fri Sep 19 10:21:01 2003


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On Monday 08 September 2003 02:17, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> The "secure" memory handling in pinentry-qt is a really bad hack and
> leads to crashes (which are actually "out of memory" failures) under
> certain circumstances. For example depends the number of characters one
> can enter before pinentry-qt runs out of memory on the widget style
> that is used. IMO the only way to fix this is to not store the password
> in a QString. Instead pinentry-qt has to store the password in a char*
> because then this instable "secure" memory hack (which works around
> QString features) is superfluous.

Steffen, could you have a look at that, please ?=20

Thanks.

Ralf
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