i am working on a python application that uses encryption as part of its security features. so then at some point someone has to enter a passphrase into the system and passed into a decryption functions (we are using gpg via subprocess).
so i am curious. so long as i drop all reference to the passphrase string(s), eventually it gets garbage collected and the memory recycled. so "before long" the phrase is gone from memory. is there a best practice way to do this? thanks Les Schaffer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
