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1998 May 26
0
Re: Beware of dangerous enviroment (Re: Overflows in minicom)
...) voila, I patched more getenv()s than I reported in my post: MALLOC_*, NIS_*; I have to admit I do know whether I did it because I found they were harmful or because I was too lazy to verify they were safe... <<<patch for 5.4.44>>> --- libc-5.4.44/libc/dl-malloc/malloc.c.secenv Sun Nov 2 03:48:44 1997 +++ libc-5.4.44/libc/dl-malloc/malloc.c Sat May 16 15:28:14 1998 @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ #include <stdio.h> /* needed for malloc_stats */ +extern char *__libc_secure_getenv(const char *); + /* Compile-time options @@ -3365,15 +3367,15 @@ if(__libc_mallo...
1998 May 30
9
"Flavors of Security Through Obscurity"
This was posted not too long ago on sci.crypt... Enjoy... I think the most relevant information is near the top, but it''s all quite good... :-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There is no intrinsic difference between algorithm and data, the same information can be viewed as data in one context and as algorithm in another. Why then do so many people claim that encryption algorithms