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Security-related innovation in Unix
Jason Miller, 2005-09-28

Recently, a good friend of mine forwarded me an article from kerneltrap.org, which talked about a new heap implementation that's being introduced into an upcoming release of the OpenBSD operating system. This article was of specific interest to me, as I have been experimenting with the creation of a more secure heap implementation myself.

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Security-related innovation in Unix 2005-10-03
David Emery
One of the things that Ada supports is the notion of strongly typed heaps, and has mechanisms to establish the max size of the heap for each "access type". This is what I think we really need. A big part of the security problem with heaps in C/C++ is that they're completely untyped, which makes it...

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