A netlink-based user-space crypto API

Posted Oct 21, 2010 15:13 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
In reply to: A netlink-based user-space crypto API by neilbrown
Parent article: A netlink-based user-space crypto API

I would prefer not to have the IV in the filename, for that would potentially be visible in ps output.

A netlink-based user-space crypto API

Posted Oct 22, 2010 1:54 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link] (1 responses)

It is long past time that /proc/*/cmdline were not world-readable.

A netlink-based user-space crypto API

Posted Oct 22, 2010 9:09 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Unfortunately there are a *lot* of scripts out there that depend on 'ps -o args' and similar commands working for users other than the current one. Really a lot. This would, of course, break them all.