Commit 54f70a1c authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Mention a current showstopper

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  OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
  ______________                           $Date: 2002/08/09 11:37:13 $
  ______________                           $Date: 2002/11/21 22:39:16 $

  DEVELOPMENT STATE

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  RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS

    o [2002-11-21]
      PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
      be optimized away in modern compilers.  This is definitely not good
      and needs to be fixed immediately.  The formula to use is presented
      in:

      http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0

      The problem report that mentions this is:

      https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343

  AVAILABLE PATCHES

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