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Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sat Sep 17 13:56:48 2005
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:17:25 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:40:26AM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:53:20AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
|
| > >My view is that C is fine, but it needs a real library and programmers
| > >who learn C need to learn to use the real library, with the bare-metal
| > >C-library used only by library developers to bootstrap new safe
| > >primitives.
| >
| > So wouldn't the world be a better place if we could all agree on a
| > single such library? Or at least, a single API. Like the STL is for C++.
| >
|
| Yes, absolutely, but who is going to do it?
The glibc people? The openbsd people?
I recall that for a while if you used gets, the linker would
complain. I can't recall what platform this was on. BSDi, maybe?
Adam
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