Secure Coding: Principles and Practices

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to those who helped in the preparation of this book. We thank our technical reviewers: Bill Murray, Michael Shaff, Danny Smith, Tim Townsend, Wietse Venema, John Viega, Paul Vixie, and Yvonne Wilson. We must also recognize our editor, Debby Russell. Her substantial previous experience with this subject made her expert assistance all the more valuable. Thanks as well to the entire O'Reilly production crew. It is only fair, too, that we thank AT&T Long Distance for their "AT&T Unlimited" calling plan. Coauthoring this book with some 2500 miles of separation between the authors, even with all of the connectivity of the Internet, has been so much easier knowing that we could call each other so easily and quickly, without the worry of paying our mortgages.

From Mark: First, I would like to thank Tim Townsend of Sun Microsystems for his unrelenting intellectual honesty in pursuing the secrets of enterprise security and for taking me along on part of his journey. I owe a debt, too, to Gene Spafford, for his help some years back in thinking through many of the social and business issues that surfaced later in this book.

I also need to acknowledge my friend and coauthor Ken van Wyk. It was his unique blend of expertise, talent, discipline, good humor, and patience that made this impossible book possible again.

Lastly, I owe a special thanks to my wife Paula and our youngsters, who have made so many small sacrifices (and a few large ones) in order to allow me ...