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From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
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To: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@hadiko.de>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnupg insecure memory
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:11:31 +0100
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:05, Thomas E. Zander wrote:

Hi there,

> Hi,
>
> I have now upgraded to 4.5-RELEASE, all applications built from
> scratch, and gnupg tells about "using insecure memory".
>
> Normally, this happens only if the gpg binary is not setuid root.
> But it is, and this message appears to root, too.
>
> Does anybody else see this behavior and has an idea of what's going on
> there?

This is totally normal behavior. Insercure memory means that the pages that 
contain you private key data might get swapped. In order to avoid this they 
need to be marked as non-swappable (don't remember the exact term, sorry) and 
only setuid programs can do it if you run them as a normal user. Not a big 
issue I think.

Cheers,
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        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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