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Re: Missing eraser function


From: Kevin Ryde
Subject: Re: Missing eraser function
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:47:09 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

"Hadmut Danisch" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> this is not exactly a bug, but rather a missing function.
> I'd like to use gmp for some cryptographical computations,
> but could not find an erase function.

There's no attempt to do anything like that.  Operand data will be
sprayed around the stack, malloced memory, and registers.  We
generally suggest you protect the whole process.  Niels Möller has
also pointed out that one may want to ensure swap space on disc is
protected or cleaned too.

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