Re: User interface, security, and "simplicity"

2008-05-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:27:48AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > Dynamic strings tempt people to forget about enforcing > length limits and forget about correctly handling the > case when the length limits are exceeded. This too is dealt with. Message sizes are bounded, recipient counts are bou

Re: User interface, security, and "simplicity"

2008-05-07 Thread Peter Gutmann
"James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >In any program subject to attack, all strings should have known, documented, >and enforced maximum length, a length large enough for all likely legitimate >uses, and no larger. Precisely. An example of where dynamic strings can lead you is what happ