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Special Forums Cybersecurity is open source more secure ? Post 302331190 by pludi on Saturday 4th of July 2009 01:25:36 PM

07-04-2009

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Both yes and no. On the one hand since a lot of people can take a look at the source it's harder to intentionally introduce malicious code. On the other hand, a lot of projects have no formalized security tests and rely on software that checks for certain patterns in the code that could introduce flaws.

The best example is the OpenSSL bug introduced in Debian because Valgrind reported uninitalized memory. The alledged "fix" reduced the overall randomness of the system because the coder and reviewers didn't see all the implications.

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gnutls_url_is_supported(3)					      gnutls						gnutls_url_is_supported(3)

NAME

       gnutls_url_is_supported - API function

SYNOPSIS

       #include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

       int gnutls_url_is_supported(const char* url);

ARGUMENTS

       const char* url
		   A PKCS 11 url

DESCRIPTION

       Check whether url is supported.	Depending on the system libraries GnuTLS may support pkcs11 or tpmkey URLs.

RETURNS

       return non-zero if the given URL is supported, and zero if it is not known.

SINCE

       3.1.0

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	      info gnutls

       should give you access to the complete manual.  As an alternative you may obtain the manual from:

	      http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/

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