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Nov 07, 2020

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Exist
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Nov 07, 2020

Defect-free software does not exist.

Lines
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Nov 07, 2020

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

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Nov 07, 2020

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

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Nov 07, 2020

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

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Nov 07, 2020

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.

Nov 07, 2020

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Nov 07, 2020

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

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