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Re: [gNewSense-users] basic questions about gNS


From: Dara Adib
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] basic questions about gNS
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:55:46 -0500

On 2/16/09, Ted Smith wrote:
> FireGPG isn't very secure with regard to handling passphrases. I
>  wouldn't recommend its use -- instead, use the Seahorse applets to
>  manually encrypt and sign clipboard text.

If I recall correctly, this issue was fixed in FireGPG version 0.6
(October 17).[1]

But the fact that such a major security flaw existed in the first
place is a valid point.

[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497547




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