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DNSSEC?
Don't think for one second that using malloc directly would have
saved OpenSSL here. By default malloc does not zero freed memory
it returns. It is a feature that needs to be enabled. If OpenSSL
wanted to zero memory it was returning could have done that itself.
The only difference is that *some* malloc implementations examine
the envionment and change their behaviour based on that.
That OpenSSL used its own memory allocator was a problem does not
stand up to rigourous analysis.
Mark
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