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Software sandbox for storage of sensitive information in memory.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2019-07-26 · latest 2025-12-14

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  1. …to prevent leakage via swap 4) and so on... Not as ergonomic as OP's proposal, of course. [1] https://github.com/awnumar/memguard
    comment by thr0w4w4y1337 · 2025-12-14 · in Go Proposal: Secret Mode
  2. I evaluated but didn't adopt https://github.com/awnumar/memguard in Go. No matter how well-implemented and reliable it is, I can't pass its secrets to https://github.com/FiloSottile/age . I assume all process memory may contain residual…
    comment by networked · 2025-11-20 · in Go Cryptography State of the Union
  3. There is memguard [1] but I don't know how secure it is. [1] https://github.com/awnumar/memguard
    comment by jonathanstrange · 2024-03-15 · in Programs written in Golang have no secrets
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    MemGuard: Secure sensitive information in memory in Go
    story by ngaut · 2019-07-26 · 23 comments