[2449] in Kerberos
Re: Why zero out key variables?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucien Van Elsen)
Wed Dec 9 17:06:31 1992
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 16:48:52 -0500
From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
To: Jim_Miller@suite.com
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jim Miller's message of Wed, 9 Dec 92 15:16:58 -0600 <9212092117.AA10271@bilbo.suite.com>
Another reason is that the program may abnormally exit for whatever reason
and leave core dump with the contents of the process's memory space in some
publically readable location in the filesystem; reducing the amount of time
sensitive information resides in memory reduces the risk of this happening.
-Lucien
