full-disclosure - How secure is software X?

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Date: Fri May 12 18:21:54 2006
From: eaton.lists at gmail.com (Brian Eaton)
Subject: How secure is software X?

On 5/12/06, Blue Boar <BlueBoar@...evco.com> wrote:
> Brian Eaton wrote:
> > On 5/11/06, Blue Boar <BlueBoar@...evco.com> wrote:
> >> Don't we fairly quickly arrive at all products passing all the standard
> >> tests, and "passing" no longer means anything?
> >
> > I believe that point is called "success."
>
> I was thinking more like all their "security" efforts only went to
> making sure the test reports clean, and they get declared "secure".  Now
> you have two products that pass the tests regardless of relative
> security, or whether one of them was carefully developed with security
> in mind.  Not my definition of success.

Rather than being declared "secure", they should probably be declared
"not trivially broken with any of the standard tools."  Having "not
trivially broken" as a barrier to entry for software would be a major
improvement.

- Brian