Holes discovered in SSL certificate validation

Posted Nov 5, 2012 2:31 UTC (Mon) by wblew (subscriber, #39088)
In reply to: Holes discovered in SSL certificate validation by intgr
Parent article: Holes discovered in SSL certificate validation

Strongly static types languages refuse to perform implicit conversion.

To be blunt, C, and thus C++'s, implicit type conversion is at the root of plenty of exploitable security defects.