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Is data in RAM insecure, or am I just paranoid?
Can I do secure memory management in Perl scripts for cryptographic applications?
'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl.
Can Perl encryption scripts be run with ram wipe
making perl more forgetting
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Re^2: Is it possible to sanitize Perl memory that holds sensitive data? (crypto implications)
by missingthepoint (Friar) on Aug 28, 2008 at 07:38 UTC

    Thanks, the make perl more forgetting thread has what I was after. Unfortunately, it's titled badly, so the search I did before posting didn't find it. :|


    email: perl -e 'print reverse map { chr( ord($_)-1 ) } split //, "\x0bufo/hojsfufqAofc";'

        Yeah, in hindsight I should have used google to search PM as well, instead of just using the internal search :)


        email: perl -e 'print reverse map { chr( ord($_)-1 ) } split //, "\x0bufo/hojsfufqAofc";'