From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Charles Martin <joelisp@yahoo.com>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Does Marshal handle malicious data?
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:10:04 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0203061406110.74739-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020306115922.B4830@pauillac.inria.fr>
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> Gracefully recovering from bad data could be implemented, but at
> significant run-time cost. An alternative is to use message
> authentication codes and the like to guarantee the integrity of the
> data.
I've thought that it may be useful to have a Sys.version or similar
to use in such authentication codes, since I do exactly what you
mention and ensuring integrity across compiler versions is an issue.
Opinions?
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-05 22:56 Charles Martin
2002-03-06 3:28 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-03-06 10:59 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-03-06 14:10 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2002-03-07 8:59 ` Xavier Leroy
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