dr.orlovsky on Nostr: The moment unencrypted private key touches the memory - forget about safety. Even C ...
The moment unencrypted private key touches the memory - forget about safety. Even C and rust compilers create copies all around (and zeroize doesn’t help), what to say about python, go and other garbage-collector based languages…
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