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Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Sep 14 11:44:47 2005

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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:46:17 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: demonfighter@gmail.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <878xy1m19e.fsf@snark.piermont.com>

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.

Cyclone.

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