Re: [xml-dev] Fwd: [e-lang] Protocol implementation errors

[Tyler Close <tyler@waterken.com>]

On Friday 03 October 2003 15:06, Rich Salz wrote:
> > Are you saying it doesn't make sense to ask why ASN.1 has been
> > vulnerable to long-lived bugs? We are not talking about just one
> > bug in just one implementation.
>
> In every case so far, it's been untested code paths.  As others have
> said, that's not ASN1/[BDPX]ER's fault.

What if the design of ASN1/[BDPX]ER yields many more code paths
than other designs? Is that a design flaw?

Tyler

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