From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Cache passwords
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:14:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilun099yhao.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3znd9c0x4.fsf@defun.localdomain> (Jesper Harder's message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:59:19 +0100")
Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a particular reason for using an obarray rather than a hash
>>> table?
>>
>> I dunno. Does Emacs 20 support hash tables?
>
> Probably not. But I thought we were dropping support for Emacs 20 in
> No Gnus.
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...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 0:14 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 [this message]
2003-12-31 0:37 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-31 1:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-12-31 1:03 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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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