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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: variable length strings
Date: 27 Oct 2004 12:26:01 +0200
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Pascal Obry wrote:

> Such program is creating a security hole anyway... if you know that
> somebody has used such algorithm just send him (file upload on a Web
> site for example) a file with a very long line!

Please distinguish between security (unauthorized access) and
denial-of-service.

And will continuous appending to an Unbounded_String not give the same
risks?

Greetings,

Jacob
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 it's a question of how fast you hit it."