On 3/25/2011 4:17 PM, Jeremy Farrell wrote:
From: Jeffrey Walton Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 8:45 PM On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Anthony Gabrielson<agabriels...@comcast.net> wrote:
This will do what you want: http://agabrielson.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/openssl-an-example-from-the-command-line/memset(plaintext,0,sizeof(plaintext)); The optimizer might remove your zeroization. Jeff
But only if has a bug, in which case it might do anything.
It can remove it even without a bug. It's a common optimization to remove an assignment that the optimizer can prove has no effects. Since the 'memset' is the last reference to 'plaintext', the optimizer can legally remove it.
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