[42256] in Cypherpunks
Re: Does your software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Brown)
Wed Oct 25 09:48:28 1995
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:30:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9510241747.AA02533@all.net>
On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
> Actually, not true. The global fixed-length buffers, shared variables,
> and lack of prototypes provide protection against allocation problems
> which sould result in denial of service, corruptions at near-capacity
> load, and other similar security problems.
Please explain how a lack of prototypes (and shared variables for that
matter) provide protection against the problems you describe.
- Andy
