Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libcrypt

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> Anyway, here is a first cut on an "explicit_bzero" function
> which doesn't get optimized away. I've put it to src/common
> because the same thing makes sense in the kernel too.
> Comments?

Just make it an alias on memset. That's good enough. I think calling it
something like "secure_memset" or "safe_memset" is better, but opinions
might differ.

Joerg