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Roman Fomichev

  • Safe Clearing of Private Data

    06.04.2016
    We often need to store private data in programs, for example passwords, secret keys, and their derivatives, and we usually need to clear their traces in the memory after using them so that a potential intruder can't gain access to these data. In this article we will discuss why you can't clear private data using memset() function. Read more

  • Analyzing the GTK+ Cross-Platform Widget Toolkit with PVS-Studio

    18.03.2016
    Widget toolkits are used to make the process of application GUI development easier, and GTK+ is one of them. It is this project that I picked for my first article about the PVS-Studio analyzer. I scanned the code of GTK+ with PVS-Studio for possible bugs and got quite a lot of messages about errors and suspicious fragments. Some of them are pretty critical. The total number of bugs is too big for an article, so I will talk only about some of them, which are the most typical. Read more