[pass] [PATCH] See: "Bugfix for Mac's diskutil"

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Allan Odgaard <lists+pass at simplit.com>
wrote:

> On 29 Jun 2014, at 1:45, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
>  I'm working on a sufficiently clean patch for this.
>>
>
> What is the purpose of this code? I thought it was creating an encrypted
> disk image to make it harder to later obtain the password via computer
> forensics, but it doesn’t seem to involve any encryption. I would also
> assume that most people using `pass` on a Mac already have full disk
> encryption enabled (FileVault).


The purpose is to never store a temporary unencrypted file anywhere except
memory.
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