Browse thread
[Caml-list] How to secure an OCaml server
[
Home
]
[ Index:
by date
|
by threads
]
[ Message by date: previous | next ] [ Message in thread: previous | next ] [ Thread: previous | next ]
[ Message by date: previous | next ] [ Message in thread: previous | next ] [ Thread: previous | next ]
Date: | 2004-02-28 (20:29) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] How to secure an OCaml server |
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:28:07PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Richard Jones wrote: > > > This is a new type of vulnerability discovered fairly recently. > > I am not sure about this, as I can hardly imagine that some clever souls > may not have thought of such problems much earlier. I suppose, the big > problem is the seductive easiness of hashes and their popularization by > perl... Of course _I_ always recommend using assoc lists instead of Hashtbl with OCaml nowadays. This has the feature that it's _always_ O(big something) so DoS attacks are never a problem :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment 'There is a joke about American engineers and French engineers. The American team brings a prototype to the French team. The French team's response is: "Well, it works fine in practice; but how will it hold up in theory?"' ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners