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Re:Show HN: Securely Handle Encryption Keys in Go by dimitri1995 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:25PM (#14174894)
Not really, you're suppose to use memguard to create a slice then an address is returned; there is no original data.
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Re:Show HN: Securely Handle Encryption Keys in Go by stouset on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:49PM (#14175014)
The GP specifically mentioned copying data into an `mmap`'d buffer. My point is that copying presupposes secrets already in managed memory, and at that point you've already lost.
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