GNUPG2 insecure memory warning

felipe1982 · February 23, 2009, 10:14am

GnuPG Frequently Asked Questions - GnuPG.org I chmod-ed 4755 (setUID=root) /usr/bin/gpg2 but I still get warnings about insecure memory (I operate machine through SSH only).

felipe@suse-amd:~> stat /usr/bin/gpg2
  File: `/usr/bin/gpg2'
  Size: 745628          Blocks: 1472       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 803h/2051d      Inode: 680920      Links: 1
Access: (4755/-rwsr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2009-02-23 04:12:21.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2008-06-06 21:18:28.000000000 -0400
Change: 2009-02-23 04:12:07.000000000 -0500
felipe@suse-amd:~&gt; gpg2 -d encrypted.asc

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Brian Davidson (Masked Crusader 2) &lt;brian.davidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com&gt;"
2048-bit ELG key, ID EA98F26F, created 2009-02-22 (main key ID 9A69A656)

can't connect to `/home/felipe/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
can�t lock memory: Cannot allocate memory
Warning: using insecure memory!
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG key, ID EA98F26F, created 2009-02-22
      "Brian Davidson (Masked Crusader 2) <brian.davidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>"
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

dGVzdCAzDQoxODo0Ng0KZW5jcnlwdGVkDQoNCg0KRmVsaXBlDQoNCg==
felipe@suse-amd:~>

felipe1982 · February 23, 2009, 11:40am

I should probably add i’m using opensuse 11.0 on this particular machine. And, I don’t want to “hide” the messages, I want to utilise ‘secured’ memory capability.

ghostintheruins · February 23, 2009, 3:32pm

Please have a look here.

Cheers.

felipe1982 · February 24, 2009, 3:38am

I must be dreaming. Did you see the link on my first post? Did you read what I wrote?!