On Wednesday 12 June 2002 8:35 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote: > This story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25693.html) talks about > the ASN.1 problems. To a neophyte of the protocols etc., of the internet it > seems worrying: to a computer user the following is frightening: > > "So severe are the potential ramifications of widespread ASN.1 security > holes, that President Bush was personally briefed on the matter, according > to cyber security czar Richard Clarke, speaking at a meeting of the > National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) last > March." > > Then: > > "With that mandate, Howard Schmidt, FORMER MICROSOFT SECURITY CHIEF (my > caps) and newly-appointed vice chairman of the President's Critical > Infrastructure Protection Board, created a full-time "Cyber Interagency > Working Group" in February to examine the government's vulnerability to > ASN.1 implementation holes." >
And another quote from the story: "Additionally, programmers often borrow and reuse code from prior implementations of a protocol, or from open-source software, taking the flaws along with it. " Naughty naughty programmers to be relying on open-source rubbush. Pam -- Tony Blair and Bill Gates are my heroes. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
