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Re: Inspecting Code for Security

Subject: Re: Inspecting Code for Security
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:22:47 +0200
caleb.dods@bell.ca wrote:

I have a background in programming and code inspection. However our
inspections were not targeted at security, instead they looked for
logic errors, over complex code, missing comments, etc.

With security in mind what things other things should I be looking
for in a code inspection?

Well, you'll want to read "Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO" by David A. Wheeler, available at <http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/>


Although it has "Linux" and "Unix" in its name, I find it very helpful to get a feeling about potential problems that might strike you on other platforms.

j.

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