Andrey Chernov <a...@freebsd.org> writes: > Theo kindly explained that zeroing whole page instead of single variable > suits to his newest arc4random better, since clears two structs at once > (including ChaCha state), making some form of backward secrecy.
Yes, avoiding leaking key material to child processes would be useful for more than just arc4random. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
