Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:07:17 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDcan slides uploaded Message-ID: <22364.1116533237@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 May 2005 12:45:15 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.53.0505191238560.25801@heave.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.53.0505191238560.25801@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@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.
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