On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Ethan Benatan wrote: > Very true, and this is a terrifically important message to get out... > Diversity makes for resilience, and vice versa. see stephanie forrest's work on computer immunology: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/ and to a lesser extent, random "canary" values in StackGuard: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/StackGuard/ and the introduction of randomness to defeat race attacks, predictable sequence number attacks, etc. in OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html -d. --- http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/
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