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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:04:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
To:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        phk@critter.tfs.com, guido@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c
Message-ID:  <199610172004.WAA11623@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199610171900.MAA06276@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Oct 17, 96 12:00:53 pm"

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> 
> bzero'ing a hash buffer is not a complete solution to the problem,
> since the process may contain other potentially sensitive data
> in its address space.  What you really want to do is protect
> the cores.
> 


And what about a user attaching a debugger to a running ftpd...

-Guido



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