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| author | moneromooo-monero <moneromooo-monero@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-10-26 10:21:06 +0100 |
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| committer | moneromooo-monero <moneromooo-monero@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-11-27 22:15:37 +0000 |
| commit | 549508296d5824093d22eccb3af5976c325c6329 (patch) | |
| tree | 287c2040db033b9ba9e98223791244e4fd53efc1 /src/common/password.cpp | |
| parent | add a memwipe function (diff) | |
| download | monero-549508296d5824093d22eccb3af5976c325c6329.tar.xz | |
use memwipe in a few relevant places
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/password.cpp | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/password.cpp b/src/common/password.cpp index 5d56464a5..01eaf62e1 100644 --- a/src/common/password.cpp +++ b/src/common/password.cpp @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ #include "readline_buffer.h" #endif +#include "common/memwipe.h" + namespace { #if defined(_WIN32) @@ -163,8 +165,9 @@ namespace void clear(std::string& pass) noexcept { - //! TODO Call a memory wipe function that hopefully is not optimized out - pass.replace(0, pass.capacity(), pass.capacity(), '\0'); + // technically, the std::string documentation says the data should not be modified, + // but there seems to be no way to get a non const raw pointer to the data + memwipe((void*)pass.data(), pass.size()); pass.clear(); } |