Go proposal: Secret mode

10 months ago by Arthur Besse to c/golang

Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.

who 4 points 10 months ago

The package is experimental and is mainly for developers of cryptographic libraries, not for application developers.

Seems to me that any application that accepts password input should be doing this. I wish more languages offered a reliable way to do it.

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