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Zeroizing a register seems pretty straightforward. Zeroizing any cache that it may have touched seems a lot more complex. I guess that's why they work so hard to keep everything in registers. Lucky for them we aren't in the x86 era anymore and there are a useful number of registers. I'll need to read up on how they avoid context switches while their registers are loaded.


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