Chris Double

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Preventing heartbleed bugs with safe programming languages

2014116 points112 comments Security & Privacy details

The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL has resulted in a fair amount of damage across the internet. The bug itself was quite simple and is a textbook case for why programming in unsafe languages like C can be problematic. As an experiment to see if a safer systems programming language could have prevented the bug I tried…