[Cryptography] Heartbleed and fundamental crypto programming practices

[Twan van der Schoot]

Why not designed your system around StringBuffer rather than String. 

It has the advantage that its access is synchronized. If you need the access speed (which I sincerely doubt), use StringBuilder, its functionality is similar to StringBuffer, but not sync'ed.


On 11 apr. 2014, at 15:57, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:

> On 10/04/2014 07:15 am, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> 
>> ...Also, since String's are immutable in Java, you have the problem that even if you know you've got sensitive data you no longer need stored in a String ... there's   nothing you can do to get rid of it.)
> 
> That problem - exactly, does anyone know a solution in Java to cleansing
> Strings?
> 
> (I write the password, etc code in byte[] but sometimes one has to have
> a String, such as asking the user for some input, .. like a password.)

Using which interface?

/Twan

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> iang
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