[42287] in Cypherpunks
Re: Does your software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Wed Oct 25 14:08:39 1995
Errors-To: cpadmin@toad.com
From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
To: asb@nexor.co.uk (Andy Brown)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:21:22 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951025132835.16584C-100000@eagle.nexor.co.uk> from "Andy Brown" at Oct 25, 95 01:30:19 pm
>
> 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.
The design of the server is documented in a white paper stored in our
W3 server. Look under the URL below and select:
Management Analytics -> Software -> Daemons -> White Paper
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