lbcwallet/internal/zero/slice.go
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// Copyright (c) 2015 The btcsuite developers
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// This file implements range-based zeroing, which as of Go 1.5 is
// optimized using a Duff's device. See slice14.go for an implementation
// optimized for previous Go versions.
//
// +build !go1.3,!go1.4
package zero
import "math/big"
// Bytes sets all bytes in the passed slice to zero. This is used to
// explicitly clear private key material from memory.
//
// In general, prefer to use the fixed-sized zeroing functions (Bytea*)
// when zeroing bytes as they are much more efficient than the variable
// sized zeroing func Bytes.
func Bytes(b []byte) {
for i := range b {
b[i] = 0
}
}
// BigInt sets all bytes in the passed big int to zero and then sets the
// value to 0. This differs from simply setting the value in that it
// specifically clears the underlying bytes whereas simply setting the value
// does not. This is mostly useful to forcefully clear private keys.
func BigInt(x *big.Int) {
b := x.Bits()
for i := range b {
b[i] = 0
}
x.SetInt64(0)
}