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I agree. This is the paper that started it all.
by jeffreyg 15y ago
I agree. This is the paper that started it all.
- tptacek 15y agoWell. It's the paper that made the topic break out.
- lawnchair_larry 15y agoNot true. It just took credit for it, and somehow managed to inject a new buzzword into circulation. http://www.suse.de/~krahmer/no-nx.pdf http://www.suse.de/~krahmer/no-nx.pdf is from 2005. http://www.comms.engg.susx.ac.uk/fft/security/solaris_non_executable_stack.txt http://www.comms.engg.susx.ac.uk/fft/security/solaris_non_ex... is from 1999.
- onars 15y agoIt is true that code-reuse attacks have been around for some time, but Shacham's paper actually showed that you can make arbitrary --Turing complete-- computations with this approach, among other things. I think this alone is a good contribution.