Re: [PATCH] Use kzfree in crypto API context initialization andkey/iv handling

[Herbert Xu]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Zeroing long term keys makes sense but for the short lifepsan keys used on
> the wire its a bit pointless irrespective of speed (I suspect done
> properly the performance impact would be close to nil anyway)

Sure, though we're not actually arguing whether keys should be
zeroed here, but the metadata, i.e., pointers to keys, buffers,
etc.

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