[Cryptography] defaults, black boxes, APIs, and other engineering thoughts

[James A. Donald]

On 2014-01-07 21:52, Jerry Leichter wrote:
 > We regularly sacrifice security on the alter of efficiency - see the
 > C++ STL and its approach to iterators.  (I wrote about this years
 > ago:  http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.85.html#subj5.4)

C++ fixed the gets and sprintf problems long ago, and for the most
part it has automated memory management.

To mitigate the iterator problem, needs "for each"

VC 2008 has a non standard, non portable, "for each" command.

The  C++11 standard uses "for" to do the same thing.

for (auto x : v) {/*do something with all x in v*/}

for (auto& x : v) {/*do something to all x in v*/}

Then there is the std::for_each with its infamously user hostile
syntax.  Requires the lambda calculus to be useful, which is only
available in C++11