Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0
D. Bernstein. Daniel J. Bernstein
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 606077045, USA, (November 2007)
Abstract
The qmail software package is a widely used Internet-mail
transfer agent that has been covered by a security guarantee
since 1997. In this paper, the qmail author reviews the his-
tory and security-relevant architecture of qmail; articulates
partitioning standards that qmail fails to meet; analyzes the
engineering that has allowed qmail to survive this failure;
and draws various conclusions regarding the future of secure
programming.
Daniel J. Bernstein
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 606077045, USA
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%X The qmail software package is a widely used Internet-mail
transfer agent that has been covered by a security guarantee
since 1997. In this paper, the qmail author reviews the his-
tory and security-relevant architecture of qmail; articulates
partitioning standards that qmail fails to meet; analyzes the
engineering that has allowed qmail to survive this failure;
and draws various conclusions regarding the future of secure
programming.
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transfer agent that has been covered by a security guarantee
since 1997. In this paper, the qmail author reviews the his-
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partitioning standards that qmail fails to meet; analyzes the
engineering that has allowed qmail to survive this failure;
and draws various conclusions regarding the future of secure
programming.
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