Software Security

[Technical Overview] Comprehensive analysis of the core technical concepts Rust, renowned for its memory safety guarantees without garbage collection, achieves this through a strict system of ownership and borrowing. Reflection, on the other hand, allows a program to inspect its own structure and behavior at runtime. When combined with access control, these features provide a powerful toolkit for building secure and flexible systems. This post delves into how Rust’s ownership model interacts with reflection and how access rules influence runtime behavior, particularly in scenarios where dynamic type information is crucial....

[Technical Overview] The recent discussion surrounding Dart/Flutter’s pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) highlights a critical misunderstanding of cryptographic security in software development. While using a 32-bit seed for a PRNG is commonplace, the core issue wasn’t the PRNG itself, but rather the widespread misuse of an insecure PRNG for applications demanding cryptographic security. This oversight led to vulnerabilities in various projects that relied on the default Random class for tasks requiring strong randomness....