Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++

Acknowledgments

This book is all the better for its reviewers, including Seth Arnold, Theo de Raadt, Erik Fichtner, Bob Fleck, Simson Garfinkel, Russ Housley, Mike Howard, Douglas Kilpatrick, Tadayoshi Kohno, John Regehr, Ray Schneider, Alan Schwartz, Fred Tarabay, Rodney Thayer, David Wagner, Scott Walters, and Robert Zigweid. In addition, we would like to single out Tom O’Connor for his Herculean efforts in review and detailed comments.

Zakk Girouard did a lot of background work for us on material in Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 8, and wrote some text for us. We’re very grateful, and, dude, we’re sorry we didn’t make it to your winter solstice party; we tried!

We’d also like to thank the wonderful staff at O’Reilly, particularly our editor, Debby Russell. They were all extraordinarily accommodating, and it was a pleasure working with them. In fact, this project was originally O’Reilly’s idea. Sue Miller, our first editor at O’Reilly, initially suggested a Cryptography Cookbook that we were happy to do, and it evolved from there. Thanks for tapping us to write it. Thanks as well to Jon Orwant, who helped in the initial stages of the project.

Many thanks to Gene Spafford for contributing a wonderful foreword to this book and for his many contributions to the field.

Matt Mackall lent us his expertise, helping us to write Recipe 11.19 and providing good feedback on the rest of Chapter 11.

Chapter 12 was written “on the clock,” by Secure Software staff, thanks to a contract ...