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Jeffrey Paul
6ffb24b544 Merge pull request 'Zero plaintext after copying to memguard in DecryptWithIdentity (closes #5)' (#10) from clawbot/secret:fix/issue-5 into main 
Reviewed-on: #10
 2026-02-09 02:18:06 +01:00
clawbot
fd77a047f9 security: zero plaintext after copying to memguard in DecryptWithIdentity 
The decrypted data from io.ReadAll was copied into a memguard
LockedBuffer but the original byte slice was never zeroed, leaving
plaintext in swappable, dumpable heap memory.
 2026-02-08 12:04:38 -08:00
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internal/secret/crypto.go
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@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ func DecryptWithIdentity(data []byte, identity age.Identity) (*memguard.LockedBu
// Create a secure buffer for the decrypted data
resultBuffer := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes(result)
// Zero out the original slice to prevent plaintext from lingering in unprotected memory
for i := range result {
result[i] = 0
}
return resultBuffer, nil
}