From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
Cc: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to secure an OCaml server
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:29:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040228202936.GA3960@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402282125360.7058@seekar.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:28:07PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
>
> > This is a new type of vulnerability discovered fairly recently.
>
> I am not sure about this, as I can hardly imagine that some clever souls
> may not have thought of such problems much earlier. I suppose, the big
> problem is the seductive easiness of hashes and their popularization by
> perl...
Of course _I_ always recommend using assoc lists instead of Hashtbl
with OCaml nowadays. This has the feature that it's _always_
O(big something) so DoS attacks are never a problem :-)
Rich.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-28 15:10 David MENTRE
2004-02-28 16:37 ` David MENTRE
2004-02-28 16:44 ` Yutaka OIWA
2004-02-28 16:54 ` Richard Jones
2004-02-28 17:06 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-28 19:29 ` Richard Jones
2004-02-28 19:41 ` David MENTRE
2004-02-28 20:20 ` Richard Jones
2004-02-28 20:28 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-28 20:29 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-02-28 20:38 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-28 20:24 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-28 21:04 ` David MENTRE
2004-02-28 23:16 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-02-28 23:49 ` Thomas Fischbacher
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