From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add acme-client.
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:58:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160902185827.GA31989@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160902185028.GB31756@jasmine>
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:50:28PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > *shiver* Why would one implement this in an language like C, which is
> > prone to buffer overflows, if there are implementations available in
> > more secure languages?
>
> I wouldn't propose this package if it wasn't part of OpenBSD's base
> system:
>
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/acme-client/
To clarify my statement, I think the OpenBSD project has a reputation
for writing good C. Also they design software to fail safely, by
designing privilege separation into their tools, inventing and using
pledge(2), etc.
This portable version of the software only gets some of those benefits,
but it does get some of them.
That's I didn't propose this package until I saw that it had been
reviewed and adopted by OpenBSD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-02 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-02 14:49 [PATCH 0/1] Another Let's Encrypt client Leo Famulari
2016-09-02 14:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add acme-client Leo Famulari
2016-09-02 18:01 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-02 18:50 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-02 18:58 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-09-03 7:43 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-03 10:04 ` Andreas Enge
2016-09-03 10:32 ` Marius Bakke
2016-09-04 2:43 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-04 5:12 ` Marius Bakke
2016-09-04 2:29 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-11 12:42 ` Andreas Enge
2016-09-11 12:57 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-12 17:06 ` Leo Famulari
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