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Re: When scrubbing secrets in memory doesn't work Nov 06 2002 12:55PM
Gianni Tedesco (gianni ecsc co uk)
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 22:13, Michael Howard wrote:
> 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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