RE: An attack on paypal

the lack of buffer overruns in Multics. However, in the Unix/Linux/PC/Mac world, a successor language has not yet appeared.

Work on the existing C/C++ language will have a better chance of actually being used earlier. Not that it removes the problem entirely, but it should catches a lot of easy stack smashing bugs. http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/bp/main.html -- Vincent Penquerc'h --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com