Re: How to develop a random number generation device

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:13:11 +0100, Nobody <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


When the overrun corrupts the process' own memory, the process continues
to run as if nothing untoward has happened, but it is now doing the
bidding of the attacker.

Right. The first thing an OS should do is protect itself from a
pathological process. But it should also manage data, code, and stack
spaces such as to make it very, very difficult for anything internal
or external to corrupt user-level processes.

John

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