Synopsis

This is a library of memory allocators and data structures to handle sensitive information, especially when interfacing with foreign and unsafe code.

It currently features:

• An interface to the system’s page allocator,
• a simple memory allocator implementing the Allocator trait, and
• access‐guarded wrappers around Box, Vec and String.

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
sensitive = "0.10"

The force-mlock feature may be used to force allocations to be memory‐resident: If the memory cannot be locked, the allocation will fail. Without this feature, locking is attempted, but failures are ignored.

Implementation notes

This code relies heavily on experimental nightly‐only APIs.

Intellectual property

This work is dedicated to the public domain under the terms of the CC0 1.0 licence.

The author holds no patent rights related to this work.