From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: secret strings
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:59:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqp658bd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aagansj0.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:02:43 -0500")
> I don't think that's the same thing. We want to pass the
> producer-generated data around and wipe it when the garbage collection
> deallocates the memory. But maybe I misunderstand something.
I don't think that's what you want: work done by finalizers should never
be significant (e.g. it's a bad idea to use finalizers to close
file-handles, or to wipe sensitive data). If you want to wipe that
data, then do it explicitly with `clear-string', since the GC might
never collect it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 21:44 lexbind ready for merge Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29 23:43 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-30 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 4:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-30 11:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-30 13:24 ` lexbind: how to replace lexical-let approach to hide secrets (was: lexbind ready for merge) Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-30 21:12 ` lexbind: how to replace lexical-let approach to hide secrets Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 21:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-30 22:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-03-31 15:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-01 1:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-01 4:41 ` secret strings (was: lexbind: how to replace lexical-let approach to hide secrets) Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-01 5:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-01 11:02 ` secret strings Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-01 14:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-01 15:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-01 16:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-01 20:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-01 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-01 21:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-01 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-30 15:09 ` lexbind ready for merge Daniel Colascione
2011-03-30 15:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-30 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 7:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-30 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-30 13:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-30 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-30 14:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 14:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-31 1:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-30 16:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-30 17:10 ` Tassilo Horn
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