zero-ing is not enough

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Sep 7 10:30:03 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 17:24:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 07.09.2014 19:00, schrieb John Colvin:
>> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-06-zeroing-buffers-is-insufficient.html
>>
>>
>> D could incorporate something like this, no?
>
> There are some posts on the HN discussion, stating that the 
> problem is not so easy to solve.
>
> Even without the C compiler related issues, there is a whole OS 
> and hardware stack where the data can be attacked at multiple 
> levels.
>
> --
> Paulo

Every little helps?

This isn't my area, I just saw the article and thought it might 
be of interest.


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