Unix Programming - Re: Any standard way to fork and exec something that isn't in a

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Re: Any standard way to fork and exec something that isn't in a

Paul Pluzhnikov

2005-06-25, 5:50 pm

Peter Seibel <peter@gigamonkeys.com> writes:

> Heh. That's clever. Something like that is actually probably perfect
> for what I want to do. Thanks.

How is this any different from decrypt to disk; exec; unlink?

Presumably you'll want to unlink the decrypted image even from /tmp
(or else it could be copied from there), and the fact that /tmp is
memory-resident is completely irrelevant, I think.

It would also appear that this scheme is trivial to crack -- just
trace the decryption executable and capture decrypted image before
it is unlinked.

Cheers,
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