We are approaching huge industry-wide application security critical mass for the first time. Now is the time to strike. If all we teach is input validation+canonicalization, query parameterization, and output encoding, we stop xss and sqli via education

Jim Manico

On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Brad Andrews <andr...@rbacomm.com> wrote:


I completely agree, though how are we really going to reach this point? We have been talking about this at least since I got into development in the early 1980s. We are not anywhere closer, though we have lots of neat tools that do lots of neat stuff. Unfortunately, our programs are also a lot more complicated, making the "correct" proof much more difficult.

Can we really believe it is "just around the corner" to prove this?

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Brad Andrews
RBA Communications
CISM, CSSLP, SANS/GIAC GSEC, GCFW, GCIH, GPCI


Quoting "Cassidy, Colin (GE Infra, Energy)" <colin.cass...@ge.com>:

Martin Gilje Jaatun wrote:

Karen, Matt & all,

Goertzel, Karen [USA] wrote:
> I'm more devious. I think what needs to happen is that we
need to redefine what we mean by "functionally correct" or
"quality" code.
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