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Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Sep 17 21:38:05 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:22:27 -0700
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Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
> And, of course, the issue is that every other library
> in the universe uses C-style strings (etc.), so unless
> we can all agree on a better paradigm, we're screwed.
We have a better paradigm: C++
Use const zero terminated strings where possible, use
STL strings where they must be non const.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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