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		java-man on June 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks So what you are saying is that JVM copying surviving object between generational pools might expose secrets in memory? A very good point, thank you. What could be done to mitigate this? Direct ByteBuffer per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5670862/bytebuffer-alloc... ?

MarkSweep on June 21, 2019 [–]

In .NET you can pin memory in the GC heap, either using something like the fixed expression in C# or GCHandle. A quick Googleing did not turn up something usable directly by Java, except ByteBuffer.

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