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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:42:39 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        brian@firehouse.net (Brian Mitchell)
Cc:        petrilli@amber.org, careilly@monoid.cs.tcd.ie, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199710140042.RAA16597@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971013171308.24189A-100000@shell.firehouse.net> from "Brian Mitchell" at Oct 13, 97 05:15:55 pm

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> > Basically, we need to purge all memor when it is allocated, or 
> > deallocated.
>
> yah, when we release something back into a system, we have to bzero() the
> contents, or something similar.

This is interesting.  Can you give a small sample program for accessing
data from another program?  As far as I know, pages are either filled
from a swap store (and contain data accessable to you) or zero-filled;
I can't think of a way (off the top of my head) to make this not true.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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