Language-theoretic Security

Re:Language-theoretic Security by lmeyerov on Saturday October 03, 2015 @05:08PM (#10325381)

This work sounds like, in 5 years, after they're finished understanding the last 30 years of parser research, they'll discover the subsequent explosion of type system and model checking research, and move on to that for whitelisting.

Extra oddity: language-based security is an entire field.

Edit: I'm happy that they're advocating the application of these techniques, and especially helping implementors pin-point where it's needed, I'm just confused at their selection of techniques.

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Re:Language-theoretic Security by noblethrasher on Sunday October 04, 2015 @01:51AM (#10326639)

Langsec knows all about type theory:

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY&feature=youtu.be... (about 90 seconds)

n.b. that Merideth Patterson, the speaker in that video, is one of the original authors of langsec.

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Re:Language-theoretic Security by lmeyerov on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:27AM (#10327012)

I think that clip supports my statement.

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Re:Language-theoretic Security by munin on Saturday October 03, 2015 @05:43PM (#10325515)

it's especially confusing since model checking and verification research has been lively for the past twenty years and recently produced some pretty good results (like bedrock and ironclad), but this is all willfully ignored by the langsec community...

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