From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 06:44:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B693DE4.C3B42E03@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <3B687D41.503782DF@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:44:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.169.51 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 996759882 12.90.169.51 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:44:42 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:44:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11080 comp.lang.c:71630 comp.lang.c++:79326 comp.lang.functional:7182 Date: 2001-08-02T13:44:42+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis wrote: > > Micah Cowan wrote: > > > > The point is that if you look at the security bugs in Linux or Microsoft > > > software they consists mainly of buffer overflow bugs. This comes from > > > using languages such as C and C++ which allow buffer overflow due to > > > their design. Other languages eliminate this problem to a large extent. > > > > And implementations for these other languages are typically written in > > what? Hm? > > Machine code for Ada. Hm? I think you will find that GNU Ada is written in GNU Ada. I KNOW that PascalP is written in Pascal. Neither is totally bug free, although at time of release they were IMHO free of *known* undocumented bugs. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@XXXXworldnet.att.net) (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce@ftc.gov (for spambots to harvest)