On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:43:48PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Jan Houtsma thought:
> I dont know anything ab gpg. After installing a clean RH7.0 which
> includes mutt-1.2.5i-3 i always get the following warnings
> if i view a gpg signed message:
>
> "gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> gpg: Signature made Mon 09 Oct 2000 02:07:06 AM CEST using DSA key ID FC5C7370
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found"
>
> Prolly gpg is not quite supported or i havent configured it yet?
> What do i need to suppress this.
> thanks,
It's about doing a suid on some binary which gives it root privileges and
allows it to lock memory. Otherwise your private key or passphrase or
something could get written to the swap partition where someone could copy
it. Or something like that...
The details are in one of the documents on the gpg website...
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Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
