Buffers in Assembly (NASM)

I'm trying to better understand data structures in assembly. I know I
can create a zero filled buffer in the bss section in NASM with this:

buffer: times 64 db 0

And I know I can create a buffer on the stack like this:

sub esp, 64
mov ebx, esp ;save the start point of the buffer

But how do I zero out the buffer on the stack? In C, I would just do
something like:

char buffer[64] = {0};

What's the equivalent in assembly using NASM?

Thanks,

Brian

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