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Enforce memory locking to avoid accidentally swapping GPG memory to disk #20

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@jukuisma jukuisma commented Dec 7, 2024

Hey, please consider enforcing memory locking in GPG conf:

$ man gpg | grep -A 2 -- --require-secmem
       --require-secmem
       --no-require-secmem
              Refuse to run if GnuPG cannot get secure memory. Defaults to no (i.e. run, but give a warning).

https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/blob/f0bca16ad3bd2a164bc93d56870be1a094fe3b71/doc/faq.org#why-do-i-get-gpg-warning-using-insecure-memory

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