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authorDylan Noblesmith <nobled@dreamwidth.org>2011-11-26 06:02:04 +0000
committerLuke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>2011-12-20 18:42:30 -0500
commit96f1723bb1f4155357b4e33988a2b99ee674c549 (patch)
treef21c2b656be1b5b1b95f03ad01856b472c71dab2 /src/util.h
parentf503a1486a6cbda8d0e73923fec8de3ced253b28 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-96f1723bb1f4155357b4e33988a2b99ee674c549.tar.xz
Implement an mlock()'d string class for storing passphrases
SecureString is identical to std::string except with secure_allocator substituting for std::allocator. This makes casting between them impossible, so converting between the two at API boundaries requires calling ::c_str() for now.
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diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h
index 178923727a..bcb9027148 100644
--- a/src/util.h
+++ b/src/util.h
@@ -286,6 +286,10 @@ public:
+// This is exactly like std::string, but with a custom allocator.
+// (secure_allocator<> is defined in serialize.h)
+typedef std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, secure_allocator<char> > SecureString;
+