Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl

Victor Duchovni Victor.Duchovni at MorganStanley.com
Sat Sep 17 11:40:26 EDT 2005


On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:53:20AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:

> >My view is that C is fine, but it needs a real library and programmers
> >who learn C need to learn to use the real library, with the bare-metal
> >C-library used only by library developers to bootstrap new safe
> >primitives.
> 
> So wouldn't the world be a better place if we could all agree on a 
> single such library? Or at least, a single API. Like the STL is for C++.
> 

Yes, absolutely, but who is going to do it?

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