pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
I'm doing a code review of an application that occassionally writes blocks of secure data to temp files created with tempfile.TemporaryFile( delete=True ). How secure are temp files created via tempfile.TemporaryFile( delete=True )? Are there OS specific nuances I should be concerned about regarding use of this function on Windows (XP or higher) or Linux?
Well, the contents of temp files aren't encrypted, if that's what you're asking, so if you're writing unencrypted data to a temp file then other applications could read it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
