[18442] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ericm@lne.com)
Tue Sep 13 14:53:20 2005
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:43:34 -0700
From: ericm@lne.com
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <878xy1m19e.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:32:45AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> What the world really needs is something between C++ and C -- a
> language with very clean obvious semantics (like C) which does run
> time bounds checking and strong typing, though it also needs explicit
> escapes in the type system so you can write things like device drivers
> in it. It probably also should not require run time garbage
> collection, if only so kernel code can be written in it.
There's been work on "secure" dialects of C. Cyclone
(http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/cyclone) is one.
Eric
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