On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 05:51:17PM -0500, Reini Urban wrote:

> On 04/11/2014 04:13 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> >Probably this blog post provides more information about what Akamai has
> >been doing related to this issue:
> >
> >https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/heartbleed-update.html
> >
> >It would be appreciated if you cared to contribute back your own custom
> >secure_malloc allocator.
> 
> just tcmalloc. which uses mmap, not sbrk.
> you can build your libssl also against tcmalloc. google prefers it also I
> heard.

While tcmalloc is very fast, it will not detect various forms of
misuse. It does not returns memory to the OS, for example. 

See http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html

        -Otto
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