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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:13:26 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arc4random weakness
Message-ID:  <5160183b-9778-59aa-6cf9-118014a588eb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170315130615.GC25448@pyro.eu.org>
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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org,
 freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <5160183b-9778-59aa-6cf9-118014a588eb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: arc4random weakness
References: <CAD2Ti28acbW+pGQR5UihECWvg9WduGmVzkVFug_2ZWRF2zyTBw@mail.gmail.com>
 <20170313220639.GB65190@pyro.eu.org> <20170315130615.GC25448@pyro.eu.org>
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On 15.03.2017 16:06, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Also it is great to see INHERIT_ZERO was added to mmap(2)!

It is not so great. For a program which forks very often zeroing even
one page will be slowdown. It will be better and faster to implement it
as fork syscall wrapper setting single variable, as it already done for
threaded lib.




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