Announcing E 0.8.4: The Birthday Release

[Tyler Close]

> new hashtable in E. This seems a small price.  However, not until after the
> 0.8.3 release did I notice that hashtable enumeration order is just as bad.
> Besides preventing replay, it can also serve as a covert channel *in*, by
> which unconfined Mallet can send bits to the confined Bob.

Ok, I haven't seen a full description of how this takes place, but can Mallet
additionally leak bits to Bob by putting the table at the edge of a rehash
operation? Bob can then check the time before and after his insert operation to
see how long it took. Long for a 1 and quick for a 0.

Tyler