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Re: Rewrite DIP-337n-inaky to handle script file encryption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Estes)
Sun Sep 10 02:56:10 1995

Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 07:42:13 EDT
From: m-ke0082@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Ken Estes)
To: scrain@goddard.shore.net
Cc: raju@xgroup.ernet.in, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
        linux-apps@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950906130456.660C-100000@goddard.shore.net> (scrain@goddard.shore.net)

I tried something similar once on a SUN machine.  The I found that
other users could read your environment through special options on ps.
Be sure that the /proc directory and ps and other access to kernel
data do not leak the info you are trying to hide.


Ken


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