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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: rsaenh: Remove dead assignments (Clang)
From:       Vincent Povirk <madewokherd () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-11-30 19:36:02
Message-ID: CAG_NDKqsvyJzL-Bxk079ZqA8OEoeiZ=LAkpViF8tKMU9TJD=7A () mail ! gmail ! com
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>> The usual idea in cryptography is to zeroize temporary components.
>>
>> The compiler will optimize away however if its just stack space :(
>>
>
> That's exactly the reason, compilers would maybe only care about it with -O0

FWIW, SecureZeroMemory exists to prevent that optimization.


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