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FWIW, you can implement the 'Drop' trait to provide a custom destructor, and then use, e.g. 'volatile_set_memory'[0] to zero out the memory of the object. This isn't subject to the same problems as C, AFAIK.

[0] http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/intrinsics/fn.volatile_set_memo...

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You would have to force the sensitive content to be dynamically allocated. All types in Rust can be moved via a shallow memcpy and that will leave around dead shallow copies. For example, `Vec<T>` will leave around dead versions of the values when it needs to do a reallocation that's not in-place.

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