[DGD] Re: Net Security

[Felix A. Croes]

Serhat Sakarya <serhat at freud.et.tudelft.nl>
>[...]
> > With DGD, it is also a matter of responsibility.  I provide software
> > that can be configured in such a way that there is <no way> to exceed
> > certain known limitations.
>
> Heh, remember the little bug on the windows version with which you could
> gain access outside the mud tree by using \ in the right places? :-)

In an unofficial version predating 1.1? :)  Even so, that was a
nasty one.


> Anyway, I do agree with Dworkin that as far as security goes, you can't
> be careful enough, especially if you're providing a product that a fair
> amount of people will trust almost blindly. If anybody knows/remembers
> the charming imapd bug that came with the Red Hat linux distribution,
> you'll know what I'm talking about :-)
>
> Btw, any development being done (completed?) on the area of making
> the driver multi-threading?

I will be working on that for the next few months, after I finish up
some other things (parser documentation, BeOS port, 1.1.37
functionality for all platforms).

Regards,
Dworkin