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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:23:09 +0100
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Fuzzing project brainstorming
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:52:15 -0800
"M.T. Roebuck" <marvint.roebuck@...ox.lv> wrote:
> Maybe my problem is that your proposal seems herculean to me but
> can't help to think it's a reminder or sign that we need to think
> past the current state of things.
Compared to "starting from scratch" starting such a fuzzing project is
not herculean, it's more like grabbing the low hanging fruit.
But arguments alike come up every now and then. Basically you'll hear
two things: "We have to mitigate / sandbox" and "please rewrite
everything in [insert favorite non-C programming language]".
I don't want to downplay either of these approaches. It's just that you
have to be realistic. Nobody will rewrite everything from scratch in
rust/go/haskell/whatever any time soon. There are a few interesting
projects that try to rewrite key sofware in safer languages (mitls and
servo come to mind), but they are few and none of them is in a
production state.
Our systems we have today - the ones we use to have this discussion,
manage our bank accounts and surf the web - have imperfect software
written mostly in unsafe languages. I feel fuzzing can improve the
state of things a lot.
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Hanno Böck
http://hboeck.de/
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