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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The portability sacred cow
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:11:59 +0100
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Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> writes:

> On 20.04.2014 23:14, jacob navia wrote:
>
>> For instance, OpenBSD has a function free() that is security conscious
>> and erases the freed memory before reuse. This would have stopped the
>> heartbleed bug in OpenSSL but it wasn't used.
>
> Why do you spread such drivel?

He's right.

> OpenBSD's allocator is so slow 

No, it's not.

> that OpenSSL has its own memory allocator. 

OpenBSD is not the reason for OpenSSL's own allocator.

> OpenSSL only allocates one huge chunk of memory from the OS and then
> does its own memory management. A free() that is security conscious
> would have helped exactly NOTHING because of the constraints.

You have spectacularly missed the point.