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alkonaut on June 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: KeePass – questionable security

> the CLR which has no guaranteed memory zeroing

That's interesting. Can you elaborate?

> and has immutable strings and GC

Immutable strings is a pretty standard feature for a language, right?

wumbernang on June 16, 2015 [–]

Basically, when an object goes out of scope, it isn't de-allocated instantly.

Immutable strings aren't standard; they're an implementation choice.

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