On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:52:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I really think that not every private key needs to be encrypted, and > there are some applications where this is better (e.g. for server use; > ssh doesn't require a passphrase to access its private key stored in > /etc/ssh).
Yeah, this is basically a bug, as far as I know. No-one's ever gotten around to fixing things so leaving off a passphrase just works, is all. > Sidenote: For the case where the user enters the passphrase in > manually via a prompt, does monotone use non-swappable memory to store > this passphrase? No, actually -- though perhaps it should. -- Nathaniel -- The Universe may / Be as large as they say But it wouldn't be missed / If it didn't exist. -- Piet Hein _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
