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builder::Keypair should be cleaned up using zeroize or secrecy #99

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fogti opened this issue Oct 19, 2020 · 0 comments
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builder::Keypair should be cleaned up using zeroize or secrecy #99

fogti opened this issue Oct 19, 2020 · 0 comments

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fogti commented Oct 19, 2020

Zeroing memory is good cryptographic hygiene ...

(cited from https://docs.rs/zeroize/1.1.1/zeroize/)

Currently, private keys returned from Builder::generate_keypair() may be easily accidentially leaked because the memory used by the structure is not zeroed on drop. This should be fixed.

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