Zeroise on drop for types containing private key material
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 39
- Forks
- 51
- PR merge metrics
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Description
As discussed in https://github.com/rustls/pki-types/pull/79 adding Drop to any type is a breaking change.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with pull request 79, which contains the referenced discussion, and inspect the types containing private key material there. Done means the affected types zeroize on drop without introducing the breaking change described in this issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cryptography, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100