memguard

Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.

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This package attempts to reduce the likelihood of sensitive data being exposed. It supports all major operating systems and is written in pure Go.

Features

  • Sensitive data is encrypted and authenticated in memory using xSalsa20 and Poly1305 respectively. The scheme also defends against cold-boot attacks.
  • Memory allocation bypasses the language runtime by using system calls to query the kernel for resources directly. This avoids interference from the garbage-collector.
  • Buffers that store plaintext data are fortified with guard pages and canary values to detect spurious accesses and overflows.
  • Effort is taken to prevent sensitive data from touching the disk. This includes locking memory to prevent swapping and handling core dumps.
  • Kernel-level immutability is implemented so that attempted modification of protected regions results in an access violation.
  • Multiple endpoints provide session purging and safe termination capabilities as well as signal handling to prevent remnant data being left behind.
  • Side-channel attacks are mitigated against by making sure that the copying and comparison of data is done in constant-time.
  • Accidental memory leaks are mitigated against by harnessing the garbage-collector to automatically destroy containers that have become unreachable.

Some features were inspired by libsodium, so credits to them.

Full documentation and a complete overview of the API can be found here. Interesting and useful code samples can be found within the examples subpackage.

Installation

$ go get github.com/awnumar/memguard

API is experimental and may have unstable changes. You should pin a version. [modules]

Contributing

  • Submitting program samples to ./examples.
  • Reporting bugs, vulnerabilities, and any difficulties in using the API.
  • Writing useful security and crypto libraries that utilise memguard.
  • Implementing kernel-specific/cpu-specific protections.
  • Submitting performance improvements.

Issues are for reporting bugs and for discussion on proposals. Pull requests should be made against master.

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名稱與所有者awnumar/memguard
主編程語言Go
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許可證Apache License 2.0
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創建於2017-04-22 15:40:40
推送於2025-08-28 06:19:43
最后一次提交2025-08-28 06:18:50
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最新版本名稱v0.23.0 (發布於 )
第一版名稱v0.3.2 (發布於 )
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