From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 31 3:20:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.64.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0A637B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from f113.hadiko.de (hadif113.hadiko.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.20.42.143]) by mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WFGC-0006fp-00; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:20:08 +0100 Received: (from riggs@localhost) by f113.hadiko.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0VBK2L51750 for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:20:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from riggs) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:20:01 +0100 From: "Thomas E. Zander" To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnupg insecure memory Message-ID: <20020131112001.GF46820@f113.hadiko.de> References: <20020131110513.GE46820@f113.hadiko.de> <20020131111203.A15F63FC05@energyhq.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020131111203.A15F63FC05@energyhq.homeip.net> Organization: RiggiServ - Ihr Partner =?iso-8859-15?Q?f?= =?iso-8859-15?Q?=FCr?= alles Delikate X-PGP-KeyID: 0xC85996CD X-PGP-Fingerprint: 4F59 75B4 4CE3 3B00 BC61 5400 8DD4 8929 C859 96CD X-Mailer: Riggisoft Ausguck Eggsbress (Build 1012475598) X-Operating-System: Riggiland BSD 4.5-RELEASE (To serve and protect.) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Thu, 31. Jan 2002, at 12:11 +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote according to [Re: gnupg insecure memory]: > 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. I know about the memory locking thing, but normally (I am using gpg for about 2 years) you do a chmod u+s being root and this is the whole thing. And this mechanism doesn't work since the upgrade to 4.5-RELEASE, so I want to figure out, why. Regards, Riggs -- - "[...] I talked to the computer at great length and -- explained my view of the Universe to it" said Marvin. --- And what happened?" pressed Ford. ---- "It committed suicide." said Marvin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message