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Re: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Nov 6 23:07:37 2002

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:07:21 +1300 (NZDT)
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cypherpunks@lne.com,
	ptrei@rsasecurity.com

>[Moderator's note: FYI: no "pragma" is needed. This is what C's "volatile"
> keyword is for. 

No it isn't.  This was done to death on vuln-dev, see the list archives for
the discussion.

[Moderator's note: I'd be curious to hear a summary -- it appears to
work fine on the compilers I've tested. --Perry]

Peter.


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