Secure Memory

Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ie
Thu Dec 6 13:16:02 2001


Mutant writes:
> 
> 
> When I perform a GPG operation involving my secure key I get the 
> message: Using insecure memory....
> 
> This suggests to me that there is a more secure way to perform the 
> operation. I can't find reference to this topic and would like to.

man gpg
...
     --no-secmem-warning
               Suppress  the  warning   about   "using   insecure
               memory".


 Reference: e.g.

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlock&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-stable&format=html