[Cryptography] Construction of cryptographic software.

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Wed Dec 3 15:50:30 EST 2014


On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Anton Titov wrote:

> Are you aware of any OS that will pass free-d pages to 
> another program without zeroing them out first?

roughly downed machines or various color and stripe; scratched 
allocations on a filesystem; hiberlated images; more all 
readily come to mind.  understood that the OS is not directly 
complicit at the time of allocation, but at the time of 
de-allocation for purposes of efficiency, the OS is clearly in 
the mix

-- Russ herrold


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