From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: Cache passwords
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:03:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isjxlrxh.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilun099yhao.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:14:39 +0100")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> [snip]
> I see (why?). Another reason might be that it is easier to zeroize
> obarray memory, the hash table interface seem rather opaque (as it
> should be, of course) so I'm not sure if zeroing passwords in a hash
> table wipes out all instances of the password. (OTOH, I don't know if
> this is the case for obarray's for sure either, nor do I think zeroing
> is important...)
Given that garbage collection is used, and the high-level nature of
emacs lisp, I that there is good reason to believe that regardless of
any amount of effort, the password might remain somewhere in memory for
a while.
--
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-21 11:18 Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-21 11:52 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-30 21:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-31 1:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-12-30 21:55 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-30 22:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-30 23:59 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 0:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-31 0:37 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 1:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-12-31 1:03 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard [this message]
2003-12-31 1:12 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 1:52 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2003-12-31 2:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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