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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:31:10 +0100
From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: thoughts on reallocarray, explicit_bzero?
2015-01-29 11:04 GMT+01:00 Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>:
> * Daniel Cegie??ka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com> [2015-01-29 10:30:40 +0100]:
>> yet another secure_memzero(). A better solution would be to promote a
>> single standard (eg. memset_s()) and the expectation that the compiler
>> will respect it.
>>
>
> i think you don't know the semantics of memset_s
> (it uses nonsense types, has superflous arguments, handles
> constraint violations through global state etc)
>
> it is a complicated mess and not a good api to standardize on
> if all you want is to avoid information leak in crypto code
I gave this as an example - the intention is to have a single standard
(vs secure_memzero(), explicit_bzero(), memzero_explicit(), ...).
http://openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/01/14/5
btw. libsodium prefers memset_s() over explicit_bzero() and over weak symbols.
https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsodium/sodium/utils.c#L56
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