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Re: [Json] Security Considerations

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Sat, 08 June 2013 13:04 UTC

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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:03:59 +0200
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] Security Considerations
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On 6/7/13 5:59 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Stefan Drees <stefan@drees.name> wrote:
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>> For me the main points of data interchange and in sequence are:
>>
>> 1. Do not parse any untrusted data without preconditioning

I think you include bounds testing in the above?


>>
>> 2. Do not excecute/eval untrusted data
>>
>> and trust is sometimes hard to establish ...
>>
>> As long as these two points stand out and are not burried inside sample language terms, I am happy with any re-phrasing.
> That sounds like a good goal for the section.
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> --Paul Hoffman
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