[Cryptography] defending against common errors (was: secure erasure)
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Sep 20 03:19:01 EDT 2016
John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> writes:
>Is there a readily available compiler that actually supports memset_s()????
It's been in Visual Studio/VC++ for several years now.
>I would care quite a bit if somebody could suggest a solution that actually
>worked and was actually available.
Again, under Windows besides memset_s() you've got the explicit
SecureZeroMemory().
In any case since we're all living in an open-source utopia :-), if you want
the equivalent for gcc or clang all you need to do is modify the code...
Peter.
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