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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory - 26 Sep 2016 by zzzcpan on Monday September 26, 2016 @04:41PM (#12585374)
If they really wanted to make memory-safe C happen, there are already SoftBound+CETS [1] and SAFECode [2] and other approaches. Rewriting all of the C libraries is just not a viable solution.

[1] http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/softbound/

[2] http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/index.html

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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory - 26 Sep 2016 by duneroadrunner on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:26AM (#12590292)
Yeah, apparently the Tor project considered those first but they weren't able to compile Firefox [1]. And they seem to be abandonware at this point. I didn't immediately find any indication of their performance costs.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-55a4-hardened-r...

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