Quote from: hootsmon on October 08, 2012, 07:19 amso i've got the basics with gpg down, using gpa I have encrypted a file, and I can decrypt it, but i end up with a plaintext version of the file on the file system. I want to be able to decrypt the file into memory, or the clipboard. That way (hopefully) the plaintext never hits the disk, and I don't have to worry about shredding. any ideas?gpa, like most other gpg frontends, uses the clipboard to both encrypt and decrypt. Your message is never written to disk unless you save it to a file. If you're worried about the swapfile, just turn it off. Just su to root, and use the command swapoff -a If you want to turn swap on again, you can re-enable it with the command: swapon -a Also, you can encrypt your swap file with a key that changes every time you reboot, but those instructions are beyond the scope of what I can cover here.