Re: Custom secure heap implementation

2019-05-06 Thread Tobias Nießen
> What does your implementation do differently, and which platforms does it > work on? It is still an early prototype, but it already allows dynamic expansion of the secure heap (as well as shrinking) and I hope to add support for Microsoft Windows after the POSIX / Linux implementation.

Re: Custom secure heap implementation

2019-05-06 Thread Salz, Rich via openssl-users
The intent is that you replace the upper layer, CRYPTO_secure_x What does your implementation do differently, and which platforms does it work on?

Re: Custom secure heap implementation

2019-05-05 Thread Dr Paul Dale
We would consider a patch of this nature. There are plenty of platforms where we don’t know and don’t support secure memory. Having customisable hooks would allow them secure memory too. Yes, is *must* be thread safe — just like the existing implementation. The malloc and free are the impo