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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: some #s
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Date: Fri,  6 Jun 2003 03:21:37 +0200
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> So, my factotum isn't safe if it exits?  Hmm....

well when i wrote a pop client daemon on lunix i hid the
password in a pipe, that way it wouldn't turn up in a core
dump [ok, there was a small window].

but, yeah, for a buncha high security applications you don't
want the data on disk and you wanna blow its memory
when they thing exits.

security is always a trade off between what you want to protect
and how much you wanna pay.

obviously, a bunch of you know that ...