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Re:How to zero a buffer by TheLoneWolfling on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:15PM (#8276800)
Well, the most obvious form of that is cache.

There's a entire class of timing attacks that rely on the CPU cache - they would not exist if CPUs didn't do the optimization of storing local copies of limited sections of RAM.

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