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251* example through "out of bounds" array access (see Heartbleed), or the OS252* swapping them to disk. Hence, we overwrite secret key material with zeros.253*254* Here we are preventing these writes from being optimized out, as any good compiler255* will remove any writes that aren't used. */256for (i = 0; i < N_SIGNERS; i++) {257secure_erase(&signer_secrets[i], sizeof(signer_secrets[i]));258}259secp256k1_context_destroy(ctx);260return EXIT_SUCCESS;261}
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