Hi guys, this time I've a question devoted to paranoic privacy settings with mutt. My machine configuration:
- Ubuntu 10.10 - /home encrypted with ecryptfs - /tmp is a directory clearly readable by anyone having access to my hard disk Question: when I decrypt a message sent to me using GPG, is it immediately printed on the standard output (my shell) or is a _decrypted_ copy created in /tmp and deleted after closing the message? If the latter hypothesis is correct, and considering that /tmp is not encrypted, anyone physically removing my HD could in theory bring back a copy of deleted messages using a recovery software from my filesystem. If so, I've to A) encrypt my /tmp dir B) set mutt to wipe temporary copies of decrypted messages Cheers, -- Francesco de Virgilio *Ubuntu-it team member* mailto:frad...@ubuntu-it.org http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/FrancescoDeVirgilio *Wikimedia projects contributor* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fradeve11 *OpenStreetMap Mapper* http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Fradeve11 *Blog* http://www.fradeve.org "Love - Peace - Freedom - Free Software"
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