Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Sep 17 21:22:27 EDT 2005


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Ben Laurie <ben at algroup.co.uk>
> And, of course, the issue is that every other library
> in the universe uses C-style strings (etc.), so unless
> we can all agree on a better paradigm, we're screwed.

We have a better paradigm:  C++

Use const zero terminated strings where possible, use
STL strings where they must be non const.


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