[Cryptography] Secure erasure in C.
Salz, Rich
rsalz at akamai.com
Thu Sep 8 22:10:28 EDT 2016
> On Windows platforms, Microsoft has a library that offers some form of secure erasure but I haven't used it directly. Instead I rely on the crypto implementations using it.
> Documenting support for similar features in OSX and *nix would be a very useful community service. It might well be necessary to write them first :-).
OpenSSL uses assembler when possible and defaults to memset via volatile pointer when not. Just use that zeroizing routine for maximum portability?
(Side note: haven't we had enough of C and language discussions here?)
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