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LCA: Lessons from 30 years of SendmailLCA: Lessons from 30 years of SendmailPosted Feb 3, 2011 10:00 UTC (Thu) by Thomas (subscriber, #39963)In reply to: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail by wahern Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail
"For example, you could treat a password as a sub-type of string. But strings as commonly understood almost universally support the concept of truncation. But if you truncate a password horrible security repercussions result. So why would you want to treat it like a string at all?"
You got it the wrong way round. Strings [a concatenation of bytes] can support truncation but don't have to.
Cheers,
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