Re: Memset not clearing sensitive data

2002-11-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hey there, On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 6:13 pm, Eric Rescorla wrote: > I'm not one of the developers, but I have it pretty hard to get excited > about this sort of thing. Well I'm tempted to agree with you - a lot of the whole key-scanning attack hoopla has been wildly overstated, and from both ways

Re: Memset not clearing sensitive data

2002-11-07 Thread Eric Rescorla
Xperex Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An article by Michael Howard > >(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure10102002.asp) > points out that when memset used to clear sensitive information like keys out of >RAM, the memset > (or equivalent code) ca