Software leaves encryption keys, passwords lying around in memory

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Vennonen," == Vennonen, Ari J <ari.vennonen=r3q2otnueiw at public.gmane.org> writes:

  Ari> future enhancement to the optimiser may turn it back into a
  Ari> nop.  What it really needs is the addition of a #pragma
  Ari> dont_remove_this_code_you_bastard in the compiler.  Until then,
  Ari> a lot of security code will be affected by this problem.

A cheap alternative is to disable the relevant optimisations.

Ben