Phil & Cypherpunks: Here's a little program that demostrates a fairly simple way to immprove pgp security on multi-user systems.... main (int argn, char **argv, char **envv) { for ( ; *envv ; ++envv) { if (!strncmp(*envv,"PGP",3)) { char *c=*envv; while (*c) *c++=' '; } /* end of if */ } /* end of for */ system("printenv"); sleep(10); } It deletes from it's own environment any environment variable that begins with the string "PGP". It ain't bullet-proof but just by grepping the environment of netcom, I've identified several PGP users: yonder nickt centaur henderso This hack would prevent that... 'Course for UNIX, PGPPATH should default to $HOME/.pgp anyway. Not doin' the work I oughta be doing, Stig... /* Jonathan Stigelman, Stig@netcom.com, PGP public key on request */ /* fingerprint = 32 DF B9 19 AE 28 D1 7A A3 9D 0B 1A 33 13 4D 7F */
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