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Re: Software leaves encryption keys, passwords lying around in memory Oct 30 2002 05:14PM
Syzop (syz dds nl)
Hi,

Peter Gutmann wrote:

> When compiled with any level of optimisation using gcc, the key clearing call
> goes away because of dead code elimination (see the MSDN article for more
> details on this, which uses VC++ to get the same effect).

I was unable to reproduce this with gcc 2.95.4.
I can cl...

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