From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q2DGqP9D030848 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:52:25 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAFJ6X09QRFuw/2dsb2JhbABDtWOBB4IJAQEFOj8QCw4KHBIUKCGIIbxMhTmKSWMElU+QJIJl X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,577,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="149141391" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 13 Mar 2012 17:52:22 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S7UxS-0007Bs-5v; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:52:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:52:22 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" To: Paolo Donadeo Cc: OCaml mailing list Message-ID: <20120313165222.GA23811@annexia.org> References: <4F3078F1.8070105@redhat.com> <4F3079F7.4040606@redhat.com> <20120207083412.GA30350@annexia.org> <20120310073113.GA16716@annexia.org> <4F5E3A6E.4010406@inria.fr> <4F5F1968.20600@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [oss-security] CVE request: Hash DoS vulnerability (ocert-2011-003) On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:58:13PM +0100, Paolo Donadeo wrote: > In my humble opinion, here we have two different vision of what > computer programming is, or should be. Your statement "maybe it's > better to assume that the programmer will not be aware of attacks" may > be true for the average Java programmer (please, no flame, no insult > intended to Java programmers reading this list!) but not for an OCaml > programmer. Actually the thing I enjoy about OCaml is the respite from having to worry about so many things (in contrast to C). Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat