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Preventing heartbleed bugs with safe programming languages

bluishcoder.co.nz published 2014-04-1112 min read

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…
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