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Re: Paper for the "Weeding out security bugs" Debconf6 workshop: msg#00011

Subject: Re: Paper for the "Weeding out security bugs" Debconf6 workshop
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:30:59AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally found the time to read it too. Good paper, IMHO :)

I'm glad you liked it.

> I think lots of practical and real examples (e.g. from previous DSAs)
> would be nice. Show the insecure code, show how you can find such
> a (security-related) bug, and show how it was fixed by the DSA...

That's what I should be preparing for the workshop so I can show people some
examples. If you guys want to bring up to my attention some DSAs that were
not discussed in this list please do so. I will try to point to some examples
of: bad design and bad programming practices and show the DDs attending how
to spot those in their own packages.

> Oh, and at the end of the talk/workshop recruit a bunch of people for
> debian-audit ;) You're absolutely right, the limiting factor is manpower.

It would be great if more people jumped in.

Regards

Javier

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