[618] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP: Environment protection for UNIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 26 12:44:37 1993
To: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Cc: prz@sage.cgd.ucar.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1993 23:45:57 PDT."
Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 12:31:25 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Stig says:
[More on environment wiper]
The environment wiper seems silly to me. If the enclosing shell still
has the environment in question, ps will still reveal it. If the
enclosing shell does not have the environment variables in question,
then what was the point?
.pm