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Secure Programming Techniques (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted April 18, 2003 by ris]

O'Reilly begins a multipart series on secure programming, with excerpts from Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition. "Software engineers define errors as mistakes made by humans when designing and coding software. Faults are manifestations of errors in programs that may result in failures. Failures are deviations from program specifications. In common usage, faults are called bugs."

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Free Book on Writing Secure Programs Already Available

Posted Apr 18, 2003 17:23 UTC (Fri) by dwheeler (subscriber, #1216) [Link]

For more information on how to write secure programs, see my freely-available book at http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs.

Free Book on Writing Secure Programs Already Available

Posted Apr 20, 2003 20:57 UTC (Sun) by dcarrera (guest, #9087) [Link]

Hey,

Aren't you the same guy who maintains the excellent paper
"Why OSS/FS? Look at the numbers!" ?

Thank you for doing this great work for the community. I assure you,
it is very much appreciated.

Daniel.

Yup, same person.

Posted Apr 24, 2003 21:04 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (subscriber, #1216) [Link]

Guilty as charged. I'm the author of several papers and books, as well as several programs. Feel free to peruse my personal home page at http://www.dwheeler.com. Thanks for enjoying my work!