3.6. How secure is the "for your eyes only" option (-m)? (PGP)
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This article is from the PGP FAQ, by Jeff Licquia jalicqui@prairienet.org with numerous contributions by others.
3.6. How secure is the "for your eyes only" option (-m)? (PGP)
It is not secure at all. There are many ways to defeat it. Probably
the easiest way is to simply redirect your screen output to a file as
follows:
pgp [filename] > [diskfile]
The -m option was not intended as a fail-safe option to prevent plain
text files from being generated, but to serve simply as a warning to
the person decrypting the file that he probably shouldn't keep a copy
of the plain text on his system.
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