Re: [SC-L] Re: Comparing Scanning Tools (false positives)

2006-06-13 Thread David A. Wheeler
Gary McGraw wrote: Hi all (especially david), The story you repeated about ITS4 finding a vulnerability that can't happen is wrong. The tool FIST (a fault injection tool for security) which we decribed in an Oakland paper from 1998 was what you were thinking of. (FIST was also produced

Re: [SC-L] Re: Comparing Scanning Tools (false positives)

2006-06-13 Thread David A. Wheeler
Crispin Cowan wrote: I would like to introduce you to my new kick-ass scanning tool. You run it over your source code, and it only produces a single false-positive for you to check out. That false positive just happens to be the complete source code listing for your entire program :) If you

[SC-L] Re: Comparing Scanning Tools (false positives)

2006-06-12 Thread David A. Wheeler
I'd like to follow up on Brian Chess' comments... Brian Chess (brian at fortifysoftware dot com) said: False positives: Nobody likes dealing with a pile of false positives, and we work hard to reduce false positives without giving up potentially exploitable vulnerabilities. I think everyone