Hi all. I have an idea for an open source CASE tool, that should help in the development of structured, and thus easier to maintain code. This method should help in the development of more secure code. This is just an idea, that I do not have time to implement. For more info, please see the homepage of http://www.karsites.net/ 'SPDTool - an idea for a structured open source development CASE tool.' Find out more at the above link! On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Derek Fountain wrote:
To: suse-security@suse.com From: Derek Fountain <dflists@iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: [suse-security] Will SuSE support stack smashing protection one day?
Cluttering up code with these sorts of band-aid patches isn't the answer. The answer is to get the code right, or if that can't be guaranteed, to write the code in a language that isn't vulnerable to buffer overflows - i.e. something with security designed in, rather than bolted on.