{
"subject": "Re: Bitcoin and buffer overflow attacks",
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"body": "<div class=\"post\"><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2208.msg29095#msg29095\">Quote from: da2ce7 on December 11, 2010, 05:49:22 AM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">direct to IP address transfers seems like a obvious surface area to attack.<br/></div>If you ever find anyone who turned it on. It's disabled by default.<br/><br/><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2208.msg29124#msg29124\">Quote from: witchspace on December 11, 2010, 09:59:40 AM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">There is no way to be absolutely sure that there are no buffer overflow attacks. Although it would help to implement the client in a language that doesn't have buffer overflows because it checks array indices (Python, Java, C#, ...).<br/></div>It's all STL. There are almost no buffers.<br/></div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2208.msg29165#msg29165"
},
"date": "2010-12-11T13:32:37Z"
}