In message <Pine.LNX.4.53.0505191238560.25801_at_heave.ugcs.caltech.edu>, Jon Dama writes: >Though I have to take issue with Poul's opinion that writing many text >parsers is just as secure as writing one ASN.1 decoder, but then again I >wasn't at the talk so maybe Poul has one magic text parser to solve all of >the problems. Having written 2½ ASN.1 parser myself, I couldn't help but wonder if you have "one magic ASN.1 parser to solve all of the problems" ? :-) Seriously, one of the problems I'm pointing out is that since one end of the interface has a keyboard in 99.99% of the cases, the type determination might as well be postponed so that we only have to parse the input once, rather than two times. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Thu May 19 2005 - 18:07:31 UTC
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