[geeks] GnuPG help
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Sat Mar 9 03:17:18 CST 2002
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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] GnuPG help
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:12:07PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > BUGS
> > On many systems this program should be installed as
> > setuid(root). This is necessary to lock memory pages.
> > Locking memory pages prevents the operating system from
> > writing memory pages to disk. If you get no warning mes-
> > sage about insecure memory your operating system supports
> > locking without being root. The program drops root privi-
> > leges as soon as locked memory is allocated.
>
> Bingo, that did it. Anybody wanna send me some GPG/PGP-signed
> stuff, so I can see if automatic key retreival works?
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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