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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-10 22:15:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "David Starner" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 04:56:58 +0100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <9kpo9r$415@augusta.math.psu.edu> <5drpk9.l0e.ln@10.0.0.2> <9krhd2$6po@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B7225A1.DC95C8A6@home.com> <3B73378B.EF7E2C10@home.com> <3B73FEA5.D4B46E89@home.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11788 Date: 2001-08-11T04:56:58+01:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:3B73FEA5.D4B46E89@home.com... > In this vein, I'd love to see sendmail and bind/named done in > Ada. That would not solve all of the security issues, but at > least would eliminate most, if not all of the code exploit > issues. I'd be more inclined to trust something battle-tested than something new, even if the new program was written in Ada. For a lot of the stuff, Ada would just turn a remote exploit into DOS (program failure by uncaught exception), which is an improvement, but it's still a bug and a problem. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org "The pig -- belongs -- to _all_ mankind!" - Invader Zim