[Moderator's note: FYI: no pragma is needed. This is what C's
volatile keyword is for. Unfortunately, not everyone writing in C
knows the language. --Perry]
From RISKS:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.35.html#subj6
Those of us who write code need to be reminded of this
now and then.
Peter
Someone wrote to me:
According to KR 2nd Ed. p. 211, compilers may ignore
volatile; volatile objects have no implementation-
independent semantics.
KR is not the C standard. Quoting the C99 standard, section 6.7.3.6:
An object that has volatile-qualified type may be modified in
bear wrote:
It's not terribly helpful for someone to lock up an idea for twenty
years, but honestly it may be at least that long before the legal and
cultural infrastructure is ready to fully take advantage of it anyway.
Absolutely. Which is precisely why we need an extension to patent
German police have been forced to admit that dozens of criminal
suspects had learned their phones were being tapped when the evidence
showed up on their monthly phone bill.
[...]
Telecommunications authorities said that nearly 20,000 lines were
currently being tapped.
From Dave Farber's Interesting People list.
Does anyone know details of the new proposed protocols?
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From: Dewayne Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] New Protection for 802.11
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:17:54
At 03:32 PM 11/6/02 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Does anyone know details of the new proposed protocols?
Small article at:
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021031S0007
Somewhere I read a larger article; things that
stuck in memory are: No AES, a cipher called Michael
being used; also, the
It uses:
-IEEE 802.1x for access control and authentication
-RC4 but with a new key mixing/generation method called TKIP that
provides for per packet keys and eliminates the Fluhrer et. al.
attack. Russ Housely, Doug Whitting, and Nils Ferguson designed TKIP.
-Michael is the MAC/MIC that
If I use
volatile char *foo;
is the pointer volatile or is the memory it points to volatile? What
does the standard say? Obviously, I want to memory to be treated as
volatile...
M.
-
The
At 12:57 06.11.02 -0800, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Steven Soroka wrote:
Which prompts the question, what the hell for? Sounds like an
incredible abuse of power. Do you think they have 20,000 warrants to
back that up? If so, why is Germany so full of criminals? hehehe.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:24:18PM -0600, Steven Soroka wrote:
Which prompts the question, what the hell for?
That's a pretty good question.
Police and Secret Services demanded wiretapping access
as absolutely necessary for catching criminals etc.
Some politicians agreed for some short time,
See the following two Intel links with detailed discussions of TKIP
and Michael which i found via Google:
Increasing Wireless Security with TKIP
Forwarded from: eric wolbrom, CISSP, sa ISN-a...
http://www.secadministrator.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27064
Mark Joseph Edwards
October 23,
[Moderator's note: FYI: no pragma is needed. This is what C's volatile
keyword is for.
No it isn't. This was done to death on vuln-dev, see the list archives for
the discussion.
[Moderator's note: I'd be curious to hear a summary -- it appears to
work fine on the compilers I've tested.
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