vi a gpg file?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Wed Jul 16 18:33:45 EDT 2003


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bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
| On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, at 3:49pm, mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu wrote:
|
|>Eh.  Many 'vi's keep a copy of the current buffer in a temporary file on
|>disk, so even this method doesn't ensure that the cleartext will not be
|>saved.
|
|
|   And even if it doesn't, the kernel may swap the editor buffer out to
disk,
| leaving potentially sensitive data written in swap space.
|
|   That's a solvable problem, too.  You can encrypt your swapspace, or
run a
| sanitizing program at shutdown.
|
|   Or, if you can find an editor that can tell the kernel not to swap the
| memory that holds the editor buffer, that would be ideal.
|

Or have enough RAM that you don't swap.  And no swap.
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