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Re: mutt/580: mutt stores PGP passphrase insecurely



On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:03:17AM -0400, David Shaw wrote:

> For portability, it might be good to make the address being locked land on
> a page boundary as the POSIX spec for mlock allows this to be an optional

You're probably right, but I'm afraid I don't know how you do this from
user-space. All my knowledge of that kind of thing is kernel-side. :-) If
you know how to ensure boundary alignments for global BSS data elements, add
it to the patch.

-- 
Paul

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