secure shorts

Scott Gonyea atrus at aitrus.org
Wed Aug 24 11:30:41 MST 2005


If nothing else, I will make my best effort to attend, depending on  
the day and time.  Where is this normally held?  I live at Cave Creek  
& 101.

On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:20 AM, der.hans wrote:

> Am 23. Aug, 2005 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair so:
>
>
>> Actually, it's a good idea for Java too, since doing these things
>> securely is NOT actually required, and a LOT of Java software does it
>> insecurely because of that assumption.
>>
>
> Good that I brought it up then :).
>
> Anyone want to volunteer for next week?
>
> I think we want something that at MOST takes 5 minutes to cover.
>
> Maybe have a slide or three. The presenter could send it to Alan  
> before
> the meeting and he can have it ready for the presenter on the  
> presentation
> box.
>
> Eventually I will cover how to securely create temporary files in  
> shell (
> unless someone else wants to take it ), but not next week.
>
> I would think java, perl, php, python, ruby and c/c++ would all be  
> of more
> interest than shell anyway :).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
>
>> der.hans wrote:
>>
>>> moin, moin,
>>>
>>> at one point I tried to start something on just having 5 or 10  
>>> minutes at
>>> the beginning of each meeting on some secure coding mechanism.
>>>
>>> For instance, how to securely create temporary files or how to  
>>> securely
>>> allocate memory.
>>>
>>> Yeah, yeah, all you java heads just laugh because it's already  
>>> required by
>>> the language, but you could cover how to handle the exceptions  
>>> when they
>>> do occur...
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>>
>>> der.hans
>>>
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