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		asmor 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go Proposal: Secret Mode My guess is that it just uses the existing finalizers and ensures the memory is overwritten. https://pkg.go.dev/runtime#SetFinalizer

tapirl 10 days ago | [–]

SetFinalizer is deprecated by AddCleanup: https://pkg.go.dev/runtime#AddCleanup

AddCleanup might be too heavy, it is cheaper to just set a bit in the header/info zone of memory blocks.

tracker1 9 days ago | [–]

Same here, though I think that the GC will do a full run for all "secure" data that is clear regardless of GC timing.

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