See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

If the code is running on Windows Vista or higher, here is a version that's based on the CompareStringOrdinal Windows function, so there's no plain text, all buffers stay unmanaged. Bonus is it supports case-insensitive comparison.

public static bool EqualsOrdinal(this SecureString text1, SecureString text2, bool ignoreCase = false)
{
    if (text1 == text2)
        return true;

    if (text1 == null)
        return text2 == null;

    if (text2 == null)
        return false;

    if (text1.Length != text2.Length)
        return false;

    var b1 = IntPtr.Zero;
    var b2 = IntPtr.Zero;
    try
    {
        b1 = Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(text1);
        b2 = Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(text2);
        return CompareStringOrdinal(b1, text1.Length, b2, text2.Length, ignoreCase) == CSTR_EQUAL;
    }
    finally
    {
        if (b1 != IntPtr.Zero)
        {
            Marshal.ZeroFreeBSTR(b1);
        }

        if (b2 != IntPtr.Zero)
        {
            Marshal.ZeroFreeBSTR(b2);
        }
    }
}

public static bool EqualsOrdinal(this SecureString text1, string text2, bool ignoreCase = false)
{
    if (text1 == null)
        return text2 == null;

    if (text2 == null)
        return false;

    if (text1.Length != text2.Length)
        return false;

    var b = IntPtr.Zero;
    try
    {
        b = Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(text1);
        return CompareStringOrdinal(b, text1.Length, text2, text2.Length, ignoreCase) == CSTR_EQUAL;
    }
    finally
    {
        if (b != IntPtr.Zero)
        {
            Marshal.ZeroFreeBSTR(b);
        }
    }
}

private const int CSTR_EQUAL = 2;

[DllImport("kernel32")]
private static extern int CompareStringOrdinal(IntPtr lpString1, int cchCount1, IntPtr lpString2, int cchCount2, bool bIgnoreCase);

[DllImport("kernel32")]
private static extern int CompareStringOrdinal(IntPtr lpString1, int cchCount1, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string lpString2, int cchCount2, bool bIgnoreCase);