Did you *really* zeroize that key?
Vincent Penquerc'h
vincent.penquerch at artworks.co.uk
Fri Nov 8 02:20:50 PST 2002
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:36:41PM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> Everybody probably also knows about the gnupg trick, where they define a
> recursive routine called "burn_stack":
[...]
> Then there's the vararg technique discussed in Michael Welschenbach's book
> "Cryptography in C and C++":
How about a simple alloca/memset ? Though it would possibly be more
subject to `optimizations'.
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Vincent Penquerc'h
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