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Re: When scrubbing secrets in memory doesn't work Nov 05 2002 11:58PM
Perry E. Metzger (perry piermont com)

"Michael Howard" <mikehow (at) microsoft (dot) com [email concealed]> writes:
> On the surface, this looks fine, until you look at the ASM output, and
> you see the call to memset has been removed by the optimizer because
> szPwd is not read once the function completes. Hence, the secret data is
> still floating in memory.

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