On Tuesday 24 February 2004 15:02, Marek Isalski wrote:
> Michael Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/02/2004 >13:30:15
> >>>
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> >On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 20:38, Mike Barushok wrote:
> Bad analogy time...
>
> A non-deterministic Turing Machine is a bit like having an infinite
> (?probably
Michael Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/02/2004 >13:30:15 >>>
>On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 20:38, Mike Barushok wrote:
>> (Note to the non-mathematically inclined: Yes, it might seem
>> difficult to believe, but a 4004 processor combined with
>> unlimited (countable) storage, can emulate the faste
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 20:38, Mike Barushok wrote:
> (Note to the non-mathematically inclined: Yes, it might seem
> difficult to believe, but a 4004 processor combined with
> unlimited (countable) storage, can emulate the fastest super
> computer, just not in 'real time').
What about a quantum comp
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, hybriz wrote:
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> >Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows
> > From: "Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:39:10 -0500
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows
> From: "Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:39:10 -0500
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Let's get to the bottom line. Would this page e
leading to cruddier and more bloated code and yet more security
problems..won't it be interesting if these hardware technologies have
"overflows" of their own..:)
Richard M. Smith wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4696
Chips to ease Microsoft's big security nightmare
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Hi.
"Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AMD's Athlon-64 (for PCs) and Opteron (for servers) will protect against
> buffer overflows when used with a new version of Windows XP. Intel plans
> similar features on next generation Pentium chips.
If I'm not mistaken, this is just about AMD
first of all, despite of what that news website says, that is old news.
second, it's just a page execution bit implementation like other archs have,
it doesnt mean that buffer overflows can will be avoided, it just means
non-exec stack can be subject of a page-wise implementation (not that it hasnt
