Purpose of _gcry_burn_stack

[Michael Gorven]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 21:52:54 you wrote:
> Now, at point (1) the secret key is still in memory - on the stack.
> _gcry_burn_stack will zero that out.

That's what my guess was :-) I suppose I should get it working, but since the 
master key for the partition is going to be sitting in memory anyway, it 
probably isn't a serious vulnerability. Thanks for your reply.

Michael

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