[Cryptography] Construction of cryptographic software.

[Ray Dillinger]

On 12/03/2014 01:28 AM, Anton Titov wrote:
> On 2.12.2014 23:44, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>> Every
>> one of them gets released when the program exits, and you just don't
>> know what's going to be the next program to allocate the block of memory
>> where they were contained.
>>
> Are you aware of any OS that will pass free-d pages to another program
> without zeroing them out first?
> 

No desktop OS in wide use.  But within the last ten years, I have worked
with Solaris and AIX kernels that did not zero pages. I
have no idea about phones and things running on ARM, so I try not
to assume it.

				Bear


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