[18495] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Denker)
Sat Sep 17 13:58:09 2005
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:33:12 -0400
From: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20050917154026.GP8076@piias899.ms.com>
Victor Duchovni wrote:
>>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?
One could argue it has already been done.
There exists a widely available, freely available, well-implemented
example of something just like the STL for C++. It is called
"the STL for C++".
a) Writing in C++ is easier than writing in C.
b) Porting legacy C to C++ isn't rocket surgery. It can be done
incrementally.
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