Improve secret key memory management #328
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Continuing from #327: use zeroize during Ed25519 key generation (
ring
crate). I don't see Zeroize needed fored25519-dalek
,p256
andk256
key generation, but made some minor changes in there too.Copies of key material are made when converting to crate-native types for signing. Those external types (e.g.
RsaKeyPair
) don't necessarily implement zeroize. So to clear them I added use of the clear_on_drop crate, to clear one stack page after performing signing.