It's a great idea to toss the password string to the garbage collector ASAP, I've saw a lot of implementation which doesn't consider this fact.
Yeah, unfortunately, there's no way to force garbage collection in Java. You can only suggest it by calling System.gc().
System.gc()
Correct. Good article btw, I would probably use the Kotlin/Java implementation of NaCl library but in this case the ones you used are strong enough.
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It's a great idea to toss the password string to the garbage collector ASAP, I've saw a lot of implementation which doesn't consider this fact.
Yeah, unfortunately, there's no way to force garbage collection in Java. You can only suggest it by calling
System.gc().Correct. Good article btw, I would probably use the Kotlin/Java implementation of NaCl library but in this case the ones you used are strong enough.