Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: PunchScan voting protocol

2007-12-18 Thread Taral
I've attached below Rick's reply to this thread. Rick Carback is a member of the PunchScan team. - Taral -- Forwarded message -- From: Rick Carback Date: Dec 16, 2007 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: PunchScan voting protocol I think there are some misconceptions/assumptions in p

Re: More on in-memory zeroisation

2007-12-18 Thread Peter Gutmann
Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:16:22PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: >> There was a discussion on this list a year or two back about problems in >> using >> memset() to zeroise in-memory data, specifically the fact that optimising >> compilers would remove a mem

crypto class design

2007-12-18 Thread travis+ml-cryptography
So... supposing I was going to design a crypto library for use within a financial organization, which mostly deals with credit card numbers and bank accounts, and wanted to create an API for use by developers, does anyone have any advice on it? It doesn't have to be terribly complete, but it does

Re: More on in-memory zeroisation

2007-12-18 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:16:22PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: > There was a discussion on this list a year or two back about problems in using > memset() to zeroise in-memory data, specifically the fact that optimising > compilers would remove a memset() on (apparently) dead data in the belief th