Chick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I guess it is not possible in pure Python to lock the memory from
> being swaped?
Even if you can lock the memory, python strings are immutable and can
be copied around by the runtime system at any time. You're better off
using the C API to encapsulate the p
> But a far bigger security hole is that the password is sitting there in
> your securePass variable in plain text. What are you doing about that?
Precisely why I though to use wipe() that way. The password is there
in plain text as long as it has to and then one call of
securePass.wipe() and its
Chick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm writing a security tool which requies wiping off the memory of
> certain string after being used, which I've done by implementing it as
> a mutable list as follow:
You really can't do that reliably in Python and for that matter you
can't really do it reliabl
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:50:30 -0800, Chick wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a security tool
Oh good, just what we need, beginners writing security tools.
> which requies wiping off the memory of
> certain string after being used, which I've done by implementing it as a
> mutable list as follow:
Hello,
I'm writing a security tool which requies wiping off the memory of
certain string after being used, which I've done by implementing it as
a mutable list as follow:
class secureStr:
def __init__(self, str):
self.__s = []
for i in range(len(str)):
self.s += st
