On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:34 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at> wrote: > >> It's also security boost for 64 bit users. > > > > > > Could someone please explain why you and Google claim 64bit to be more > > secure? This is a new argument to me and I wonder what's behind it. > > As stated in Google's announcement[1], the main security improvement > is (better) address space layout randomization. Exactly. See also: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/papers/sppgmb04.html -Ekr Even though that > exists in 32 bit too, it's more effective with 64 bit since the VM > space is so much larger. Looks like Windows has a specific "high > entropy"[2] version that's 64 bit only. > > [1]: > http://blog.chromium.org/2014/06/try-out-new-64-bit-windows-canary-and.html > [2]: > http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/12/11/software-defense-mitigating-common-exploitation-techniques.aspx > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
