At 11:38 AM 3/5/96 +0100, Gary Howland wrote:
The passphrase could be kept in memory and entered every time the system is started.
Gary
Right. Couldn't you insert some kind of var into the kernel, rebuild and upon each reboot have the remailer process (which would have to be root owned) check for the value of this? I am of course assuming that the owner of the remailer has admin control over the box, which is kind of unscalable. If someone does gain entry to the machine, he'd need root to skim through the kernel memory, and since he wouldn't have access to the remailer src (you don't have it online, right?) he'd have a hard time looking for what he needed... /rickt _____________________________________________________________________ Rick Tait rickt@psa.pencom.com Unix cowboy, Technofuturist, Extropian, Crypto-anarchist, Brit Hacker