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Re: IIS Remote Exploit (injection code)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dug Song)
Wed Jun 16 17:05:49 1999

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Date: 	Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:40:25 -0400
Reply-To: Dug Song <dugsong@MONKEY.ORG>
From: Dug Song <dugsong@MONKEY.ORG>
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Ethan Benatan wrote:

> Very true, and this is a terrifically important message to get out...
> Diversity makes for resilience, and vice versa.

see stephanie forrest's work on computer immunology:

	http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/

and to a lesser extent, random "canary" values in StackGuard:

	http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/StackGuard/

and the introduction of randomness to defeat race attacks, predictable
sequence number attacks, etc. in OpenBSD:

	http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html
-d.

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