Using secure memory

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Apr 20 11:01:29 CEST 2015


On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:10, julien.voisin at dustri.org said:

> Also, I'm wondering how I can estimate how much memory I should
> allocate; for now I tried with 32k and the testsuite is running great,
> but I'm worried about some possible breakages.

You may call 

      gcry_control (GCRYCTL_DUMP_MEMORY_STATS);

which prints some memory stats to stderr or the Libgcrypt log handler.
But see also the other comments.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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