1993-05-26 - Re: PGP: Environment protection for UNIX

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Message Hash: 102f886c33111c7ee2aee2e718859baea0c920819c037def7d1ab73f0197cc6a
Message ID: <9305261631.AA19652@snark.shearson.com>
Reply To: <9305260645.AA14381@netcom.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1993-05-26 16:32:31 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 26 May 93 09:32:31 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 93 09:32:31 PDT
To: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Subject: Re: PGP: Environment protection for UNIX
In-Reply-To: <9305260645.AA14381@netcom.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9305261631.AA19652@snark.shearson.com>
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Stig says:
[More on environment wiper]

The environment wiper seems silly to me. If the enclosing shell still
has the environment in question, ps will still reveal it. If the
enclosing shell does not have the environment variables in question,
then what was the point?

.pm





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