Re: Security flaw in pgg-gpg-process-region?

[Daiki Ueno]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>   Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>     I don't think so.  The rationale is, (1) decrypting large data takes
>     some time, (2) the user tends to interrupt Emacs from the terminal, and

> What do you mean by "interrupt Emacs from the terminal"?
> I don't understand the scenario that you have in mind here.

^C in the terminal where the user launched Emacs (without -nw.)  In this
case Emacs can't be said to be "killed" but it is enough to leave the
tempfile on the filesystem after the Emacs process terminated.

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno