Re: [SC-L] Programming languages used for security

2004-07-14 Thread der Mouse
The environment with which I am most familiar is VMS, and tradition is what guides secure interfaces. Inner mode code _must_ probe any arguments provided from an outer mode, probe the buffers specified by descriptors provided, etc. What do you do when you're handed a bad pointer? I forget

Re: [SC-L] Programming languages used for security

2004-07-14 Thread Blue Boar
ljknews wrote: At 11:38 AM -0700 7/13/04, Blue Boar wrote: ljknews wrote: The environment with which I am most familiar is VMS, and tradition is what guides secure interfaces. Inner mode code _must_ probe any arguments provided from an outer mode, probe the buffers specified by descriptors

Re: [SC-L] Programming languages used for security

2004-07-14 Thread ljknews
At 10:39 AM -0700 7/14/04, Blue Boar wrote: ljknews wrote: At 11:38 AM -0700 7/13/04, Blue Boar wrote: ljknews wrote: The environment with which I am most familiar is VMS, and tradition is what guides secure interfaces. Inner mode code _must_ probe any arguments provided from an outer mode,