Passwords can sit on disk for years

[jdean at lsuhsc.edu]

Ben Laurie wrote:

> In OpenSSL we overwrite with random gunk for this reason.

What?  No compiler is smart enough to say, "The program
sets these variables but they are never referenced again.
I'll save time and not set them."

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