His youtube talk: http://youtu.be/1B4wWQAiDFA

Also found his blog post: http://devblog.arnebrasseur.net/2013-04-plain-text

I'll look at this some more.  It seems like that there's agreement that you
can consider strings "harmful" but coming up with a general purpose
replacement is hard.

Will.


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Meredith L. Patterson <[email protected]
> wrote:

> See also Arne Brasseur's recent talks at various Ruby conferences, e.g.
> "Web Linguistics: Towards Higher Fluency" at
> http://lanyrd.com/2013/eurucamp/. "Modelling State Machines with Ragel",
> by Drew Neil, looks awfully relevant too, in light of Zed Shaw's results
> using Ragel for the Mongrel parser (
> http://zedshaw.com/essays/ragel_state_charts.html).
>
> Cheers,
> --mlp
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Sergey Bratus <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>    We are changing tack to appeal to engineers. Meredith Patterson
>> just recorded a set of lectures on using Hammer to build langsec-safe
>> parsers in C. They are now in editing.
>>
>>    We are also pulling together notes on designs for hardware parsing.
>> The task proved to be harder than we first thought, but I believe
>> we are arriving at a viable approach here as well.
>>
>>    It would be create to encourage programmer participation. We need ideas
>> and perhaps a set of challenges?
>>
>>    Thank you,
>>
>>
>> --Sergey
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Sashank Dara wrote:
>>
>>  Also ,am little disheartened to see not much activity happening on
>>> langsec
>>> , even after we have break through results .
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sashank
>>> http://lnkd.in/88sgfr
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Grawrock, David
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'd like to 2nd Sashank's comment. We need to find ways to show HOW you
>>>> do
>>>> things differently. Suppose I've got a HW input buffer and I normally
>>>> send
>>>> in a buffer size with a command as the first byte and that determines
>>>> what
>>>> the rest of the buffer looks like. We know that is not the best, but
>>>> what
>>>> does the better one look like. To have an impact to engineers we really
>>>> need to start showing them what better looks like and how it will help
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> David Grawrock
>>>> Security Architect
>>>> 503 264 3642
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:
>>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sergey Bratus
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:29 AM
>>>> To: Sashank Dara
>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [langsec-discuss] LangSec Workshop at IEEE SPW 2014, Sun
>>>> May
>>>> 18, 2014
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sashank,
>>>>
>>>>     Thank you! We'll look for ways to emphasize the practical case study
>>>> part.
>>>>
>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --Sergey
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Sashank Dara wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  just my 2 cents .
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently i gave a talk on langsec internally for big room of engineers
>>>>> .
>>>>> frankly teaching science to engineers is difficult . I  lost my
>>>>> audience the moment i showed them chomsky hierarcy and talking stuff
>>>>>
>>>> like grammars
>>>>
>>>>> and rules . they sounded more theoretical .   Usually engineers want to
>>>>>
>>>> see
>>>>
>>>>> more concrete things ,  things in action .  I did mention libdejector
>>>>> and Haskell based IP Stack that comes close to langsec . I did mention
>>>>> that fuzzing based testing is not enough.
>>>>>
>>>>> So if possible some tools developed based on langsec principles to
>>>>> hack popular protocols as demos might get more interest .
>>>>> making them available as open source might further help to people play
>>>>> around with them .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Sashank
>>>>> http://lnkd.in/88sgfr
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Sergey Bratus <
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Will,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    We are soliciting papers on research and/or case studies as per
>>>>>> the CFP, will have the Program Committee review them, and have the
>>>>>> accepted papers presented by the authors at the workshop, with
>>>>>> audience participation. We will have an invited keynote or two. We
>>>>>> will also hold a discussion on the directions of the field in some
>>>>>> form.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    We are very open to suggestions of how to make it interesting to
>>>>>> attend for all researchers, programmers, and hackers interested in the
>>>>>>
>>>>> topic!
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>    Thank you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Sergey
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Will Sargent wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  What happens at the workshop?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Will.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Sergey Bratus
>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Dear All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    We will hold a LangSec workshop as a part of the IEEE CS
>>>>>>>> Security and Privacy Workshops
>>>>>>>> (http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2014/index.html),
>>>>>>>> co-located with the Symposium on Security and Privacy at the
>>>>>>>> Fairmont San Jose Hotel. Our workshop will be a full-day workshop
>>>>>>>> on Sunday May 18, 2014.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    The CFP and other info is now posted at
>>>>>>>> http://spw14.langsec.org/.
>>>>>>>> Please feel free to advertise and suggest it to potential sponsors!
>>>>>>>> We would like to work out a way to waive or reduce the registration
>>>>>>>> fees for industry programmers, students, hackers and enthusiasts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    Needless to say, please do submit your research or case study
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> papers!
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    Thank you very much & hoping to see you at the workshop,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --Sergey
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