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Re: When scrubbing secrets in memory doesn't work Nov 11 2002 11:46AM
Jan Echternach (jan goneko de)
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:23:34PM +0100, Michael Zimmermann wrote:
> Not to declare the intermediate storage for sensitive
> data as 'volatile' is a coding flaw. An esily overlooked
> one, yes, but nevertheless... Like forgetting to protect
> critical code with semaphores.

'volatile' isn't suffici...

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