passing passphares via stdin/pipes

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Hi Milan.

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 20:45 +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> N.B. Using of standard input and pipes for passphrases should be avoided if possible,
> cryptsetup have no control of used pipe buffers between commands in scripts and cannot
> guarantee that all passphrase/key-file buffers are properly wiped after use.
What else would you suggest? I mean take stuff like Debian's
key-scripts.... for them, I guess, there is basically no other way to
pass the passphrase.


Cheers,
Chris.

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