Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libcrypt

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:45:25PM +0000, David Laight 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.

That's a start, but I'm not convinced it's good enough in the long
term.

 > I'm not sure that 'secure' or 'safe' are good prefixes for any
 > function name.  You need to say WHY is is better.

indeed.

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David A. Holland
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