The probability that someone would ship something so bogus is so tiny compared to how often string.h is misused as to not be comparable.
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It really doesn't help your mission of advertising Rust if you choose the worst examples for bashing C.
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It’s very strange to see security people saying that misuse resistance is an important property of crypto but not of a programming language.
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1/X Sry but I fear this conversation will not go very far. I did never say that. What I said is that this is a bad argument. This is because
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2/X You single out some misuse of API in language X and claim your favourite language Y makes misusing it harder.
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3/X The thing is you can find examples like this for all languages. Interstingly there is even a string compre function that would ...
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4/X have prevented that mistake in C. But still that's not the point.
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Using the same logic I could claim language Z is better than Rust, because Rust has an easy to get wrong style of returning function values.
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6/6 The flaw is basically a logic bug, and that has nothing to do with specific programming languages if you're talking general.
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I reject the idea that programming languages can’t make it easier or harder to write logic bugs.
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Again, if you believe that programming languages can’t reduce the frequency/sev of logic bugs, I don’t see why that doesn’t apply to crypto.
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Sry again you misrepresent things I said and add something of your own. A constructive discussion is impossible here. Have a nice day.
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