Re: [evolution-patches] small patch for security




committed as is, the property idea can wait.

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:19 +0800, Not Zed wrote:

As the comment says, this doesn't really make a huge security difference, but provides a first-level attempt, and the start of an api for it.

It Just munges memory of decrypted parts after we're finished with them, rather than leaving the data around in memory for bugs to potentially expose the data.  Of course this doesn't affect any mimefilters or gtkhtml data either ...

(i left the other outstanding camel bug in the diff 'cause i'm lazy)

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com>

Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer


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