On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:49:37 +0300
Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, Geoff just responded to my private question: it was Peter
> Gutmann, who pointed him to the thing you're talking about. There
> is a paper by Peter,
>
> http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings
Gregory, good day.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:42:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > *) New function OPENSSL_cleanse(), which is used to cleanse a section of
> >memory from it's contents. This is done with a counter that will
> >place a
Quoting Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> *) New function OPENSSL_cleanse(), which is used to cleanse a section of
>memory from it's contents. This is done with a counter that will
>place alternating values in each byte. This can be used to solve
>two issues: 1) the removal of
Good day.
I am posting the follow-up to the -hackers and CC'ing to the
-security, because some more-or-less nasty points were found.
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:32:02PM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> But there is another concern with bzero(): it is well-known function.
> Especially for compilers.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:32:02PM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:56:20AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > A possible counter-measure would be to add wiping features to the RAM
> > > modules themselves. When power is lost, the memory could wipe itself.
> > > Still
>
Jeremy, list, good day.
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:56:20AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > A possible counter-measure would be to add wiping features to the RAM
> > modules themselves. When power is lost, the memory could wipe itself. Still
> > not perfect, but would certainly help.
>
> Proper s
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