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Re: More on in-memory zeroisation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Fri Dec 14 10:55:47 2007
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:11:48 +0200
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.61.0712111604380.29938@mental>
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> You can almost, but not quite, get the desired effect for memory zero-
> ization with "volatile".
I thought that this was guaranteed to work:
volatile char buf[SIZE];
/* ... do stuff with buf ... */
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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