[Cryptography] Buffer overflows from 1974

[Peter Gutmann]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> writes:

>A real programmer would have fixed this buffer overflow this way:

Today, but not in 1974.  In 1974 a real programmer would have fixed it by
saying "your fault for entering a stupidly long password, and in any case what
are you going to achieve with that, it'll just segfault and you'll have to run
it again, this time with valid input".

Peter.