Subject: Re: Shared libraries and crypt
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- Iowa State University <michaelv@iastate.edu>
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1994 10:25:19
> The disadvantage is that if someone on your box can coax any security
> hole to write something over your shared libcrypt or to write
> something into that area of memory, everything on your box is suddenly
> compromised. Crypt should not be shared.
But if it is shared, then you can have *one* worldwide distribution, and
rely on the people outside the US of A getting their own nuclear weapons
- sorry shared libcrypt.so.0.0... and supply by default a dead crypt
anyway.
Ouch, that PGP hurts when you poke me with it.
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