On 15/09/06, John Lockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

However, this does make it extremely good for storing sensitive data
before encryption.


Not really. tmpfs may be pushed to swap space, where it could be
recovered if the attacker has enough interest. Try running gnupg
withoug suid root. It will warn you that it won't be able to lock the
memory to RAM, and therefore may be recoverable. This is the same
thing.

  cmn
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