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Improve resilience against memory attacks

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To reduce residual fragments of secret data in memory after
deallocation, this patch replaces the global delete operator with a
version that zeros out previously allocated memory. It makes use of
the new C++14 sized deallocation, but provides an unsized fallback
with platform-specific size deductions.

This change is only a minor mitigation and cannot protect against
buffer reallocations by the operating system or non-C++ libraries.
Thus, we still cannot guarantee all memory to be wiped after free.

As a further improvement, this patch uses libgcrypt and libsodium
to write long-lived master key component hashes into a secure
memory area and wipe it afterwards.

The patch also fixes compiler flags not being set properly on macOS.
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Janek Bevendorff 2019-02-21 22:28:45 +01:00 • committed by Jonathan White
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The following libraries are required:
* zlib
* libmicrohttpd
* libxi, libxtst, qtx11extras (optional for auto-type on X11)
* libsodium (>= 1.0.12, optional for KeePassXC-Browser support)
* libsodium (>= 1.0.12)
* libargon2
Prepare the Building Environment