[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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David Nadlinger  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from David Nadlinger  ---
+1, this is essential for resilient crypto code.

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[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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Walter Bright  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Walter Bright  ---
So who wants to implement it?

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[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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--- Comment #3 from bearophile_h...@eml.cc ---
(In reply to Walter Bright from comment #2)
> So who wants to implement it?

How do you like to implement it? As a special case, or introducing some kind of
generic and reusable annotation, like @keep_function that tells the D compiler
to never optimize away the calls to a specific function? I don't know what
other cases there are of functions that must never be removed.

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[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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yebblies  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from yebblies  ---
(In reply to bearophile_hugs from comment #3)
> (In reply to Walter Bright from comment #2)
> > So who wants to implement it?
> 
> How do you like to implement it? As a special case, or introducing some kind
> of generic and reusable annotation, like @keep_function that tells the D
> compiler to never optimize away the calls to a specific function? I don't
> know what other cases there are of functions that must never be removed.

volatileMemset

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[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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--- Comment #5 from Walter Bright  ---
volatileMemset() should call the C memset_s() function, if that function
exists.

Also, there should be a zeroRegisters() function that zeros out all the scratch
registers.

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[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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--- Comment #6 from Orvid King  ---
I believe this should be in the runtime rather than phobos, primarily because 
it is very dependent on the specific architecture in use.

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[Issue 10661] Add secureZeroMemory function in Phobos

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Iain Buclaw  changed:

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