Sometimes I feel like the only 20something that likes C.
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@bascule memory bugs are but one class of bug. Plenty of other gotchas. -
@KCombinator memory safety bugs are almost always catastrophic from a security perspective -
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@amidvidy@KCombinator sure, but at least they're called out explicitly so people looking for vulns know where to look -
@bascule I mean, this is difficult, because new classes of attacks are possible. For example, how would one detect a timing attack? -
@KCombinator beyond that, you can implement constant time primitives using asm! too -
@bascule suppose your compiler translate it to an instruction that runs in HW? Hard to trace down that far. -
@KCombinator it's architecture-specific assembly. The compiler can't molest it - 3 more replies
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