Reading this thread convinced me. I will not write any information on any support except my brain cells and will not share it to avoid any leaks.
I will also forget it immediately so no one can scrub my brain to recover it Going to erase everything I wrote and learned in the last past 30 years right now... Seriously, when concerns about security reaches the garbage collector which operates in live memory, I wonder why we bother entering any information in a computer... Any security related discussion reaches a point were sanity is left far behind don't you agree ? :))) What was I writing a few seconds ago ? Luc P. > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 2014-05-05 19:48 GMT+02:00 Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com>: > >> I would never have guessed modularity as a reason to worry about security > >> in fp. > >> > >> I worry about immutability in fp, wrt security. Security requires > >> mutability in order to remove sensitive data from memory, and from app > >> history. A FIPS > > > > Would forced garbage collection not take care of that? > > I think the combination of zeroizing destructors, weak references, and > forced garbage collection would go a long way. Then you only need to > convince the FIPS validator/evaluator/thingie that your garbage > collector behaves well so that sensitive data is scrubbed in a timely > manner. > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Luc Prefontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
