[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#598471: using insecure memory on GNU/kFreeBSD

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:41, rmh at debian.org said:

> Upstream recommends [2] setting the SUID bit and assures that "the program
> drops root privileges as soon as locked memory is allocated".

However it is much easier and more secure to enable encrypted swap
space than to use mlock.  It seems that gbde and the init scripts are
missing on GNU/kfreebsd.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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