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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Coding securely, was Linux (in)security On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:07:18 EST, Bill Royds <full-disclosure@...ds.net> said: > such as OpenSSH has been found to have security problems. If you look at > security advisories, find out how many come from Ada code. C makes it hard > to write secure code. I wasn't aware there was enough of a code base of actual Ada programs out in the wild for there to be statistically valid results. I gave up on any prospects of Ada when the DoD dropped the requirement that the compiler and runtime support libraries pass the test suite for exception handling because otherwise *no* compilers would validate. Given this, and the truly huge and byzantine nature of the *rest* of the language, I'm not convinced that Ada was actually any good for writing *secure* code. Think about how many programs have had bugs because programmers didn't understand how *their particular* C++ compiler (in the current version, as opposed to the version 6 months ago) handled constructors, and consider that Ada was even worse. True, it may have been safe against simple buffer overflows, but a breeding ground for more subtle bugs caused by misunderstanding the semantics of *all* the language features. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20031027/3ab62cbe/attachment.bin
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