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Re: Passwords can sit on disk for years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Mon Jun 14 16:25:15 2004
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:58:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: "jdean@lsuhsc.edu" <jdean@lsuhsc.edu>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
"ben@algroup.co.uk" <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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> What? No compiler is smart enough to say, "The program
> sets these variables but they are never referenced again.
> I'll save time and not set them."
Given the semantics of C pointers, and multiple compilation units, the
answer to your question is "probably not in non-research use."
/r$
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