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Good point. I'm going to start allocating tens of megabytes of random data all over my address space at the beginning of execution so that I too can gain this advantage :)

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You joke, but allocating and writing random data all over the heap and hiding and constantly moving key material through it is the idea behind Schneier's Boojum.

I searched for this term, "Schneier's Boojum" and the results suggest clearly this is Bruce Schneier you're referring to.

But I'm not seeing this Boojum as a concept explained in quick results, actually, one of your prior comments mentioning it is top result. [1]

Would you please explain what you mean by Boojum / link to what you're referring to?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941909

See here: https://spacetime.dev/memory-retention-attacks

Thank you for this clarification.

My leg, hand it back, sir. ;-)

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