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Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:

> If one of y'all has the skills, can you please report to this list
> whether or not gnupg (in tommorows upload) works well and can be
> considered secure?

gpg: Please note that you don't have secure memory on this system

Doesn't the Hurd have mlock() ?

gpg: WARNING: program may create a core file!

setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, 0) doesn't seem to work. How is coring
prevented on the Hurd?

gpg: keyblock resource `/home/robbe/.gnupg': file open error
gpg: keyblock resource `/home/robbe/.gnupg': file open error

On Linux it creates the directory and puts a "options" file in it. Why
doesn't it work here?

Apart from that checking signatures on .dsc files works fine. That is
obviously secure. Encrypting could leak the session key, though;
signing may leak information about your secret key. So don't do that.

Decrypting is secure unless the pages containing your passphrase are
put onto swap. That's the same level of security that is normal on
older Linux machines.

-- 
Robbe

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