Re: [tor-dev] TBB Memory Allocator choice fingerprint implications

2019-08-21 Thread Daniel Micay
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 16:28, Ryan Duff wrote: > > > If someone is going to criticize other people's work and dismiss it as > nearly useless without even somewhat informing themselves about it, > they should expect to be called out on that. > > I don't have a dog in this fight but, as an outside o

Re: [tor-dev] TBB Memory Allocator choice fingerprint implications

2019-08-21 Thread Daniel Micay
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 16:42, Richard Pospesel wrote: > > Yeah same, this convo went from 'wow an interesting discussion about > allocators' to 'fuck you Tom' real quick and without provocation. The email I replied to makes a bunch of false claims and attacks on my project. It was never a friendl

Re: [tor-dev] TBB Memory Allocator choice fingerprint implications

2019-08-21 Thread Daniel Micay
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 11:57, Nicolas Vigier wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Daniel Micay wrote: > > > > > No, you're just making false attacks and misleading comparisons / spin > > to promote your own work, which is trash. You're being incredibly > &g

Re: [tor-dev] TBB Memory Allocator choice fingerprint implications

2019-08-21 Thread Daniel Micay
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:09:36PM +, Tom Ritter wrote: > Okay I'm going to try and clear up a lot of misconceptions and stuff > here. I don't own Firefox's memory allocator but I have worked in it, > recently, and am one of the people who are working on hardening it. This makes it clear why

Re: [tor-dev] TBB Memory Allocator choice fingerprint implications

2019-08-21 Thread Daniel Micay
of obtaining it like careful performance measurements. > > We are thinking of switching Tor Browser to use the minimalist and > > security oriented hardened_malloc written by Daniel Micay. Thanks. > > I wouldn't advise giving up partitioning for what exactly? What >