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Author SHA1 Message Date
Josh Rickmar
5140086f6e Use LICENSE file and short license headers. 2016-02-28 22:22:34 -05:00
Josh Rickmar
9ee887823d Take advantage of Go 1.5 optimized zeroing.
Closes #286.
2015-05-27 15:32:32 -04:00
Dave Collins
c820c8a015 Relicense to the btcsuite developers. 2015-05-01 12:20:05 -05:00
Josh Rickmar
948609f064 Add licenses to files in package zero. 2015-04-14 11:34:25 -04:00
Josh Rickmar
4d9c43593d Consolidate and optimize zero functions.
This introduce a new internal package to deal with the explicit
clearing of data (such as private keys) in byte slices, byte arrays
(32 and 64-bytes long), and multi-precision "big" integers.

Benchmarks from a xeon e3 (Xor is the zeroing funcion which Bytes
replaces):

BenchmarkXor32  30000000                52.1 ns/op
BenchmarkXor64  20000000                91.5 ns/op
BenchmarkRange32        50000000                31.8 ns/op
BenchmarkRange64        30000000                49.5 ns/op
BenchmarkBytes32        200000000               10.1 ns/op
BenchmarkBytes64        100000000               15.4 ns/op
BenchmarkBytea32        1000000000               2.24 ns/op
BenchmarkBytea64        300000000                4.46 ns/op

Removes an XXX from the votingpool package.
2015-03-05 21:32:33 -05:00