[boost] Re: Cleaning delete

From: Igor Smirnov (vonrog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-28 10:51:06

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> 
> You might want to look at http://www.eddeye.net/src/secalloc/.
> 

Thank you, Jonathan. This is related to my proposal, but it is different 
approach. I meant replacing global new and delete operators. In the 
document you referred it is assumed that one must change initializations 
of all sensitive strings in the source text, if I understand this 
correctly. The substitution of new/delete operators might be simplier 
for large and complicated programs. In addition such opertors are much 
simplier themselves, than the arrangement from the referred paper. It 
seems that both approaches may be useful. But the avoidance of swapping 
is an issue which I have not solved so far.
There is an interesting statement about problems with std::strings.

Igor