On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Peter Eckersley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mike has been worrying about the oracle attack where someone measures
> performance differences to tell whether someone has visited site X
> before, based on whether their HTTPSE instance needs to go to disk to
> fetch a ruleset from sqlite.
>

This is a good point, but it applies equally to testing for cached content
or DNS on site X, right?


> On the other hand, the SQLite solution should be let us scale not just
> to ~10K rulesets but if we're lucky to more like ~100K.


This is one of the things I like about it. Also it reduces memory use,
which is
especially valuable on mobile.
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