Message 162769 - Python tracker

Message162769

Author	pitrou
Recipients	arigo, christian.heimes, fijall, hynek, pitrou
Date	2012-06-14.10:18:29
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> Antoine, seriously? You want to explore a function that's called > "secure" when the only thing you know about it is "probably secure"? > This is extremely tricky business and I think it should be called > secure only if you can prove it's secure. Otherwise it's plain > insecure and should not be named that. What's the methodology to "prove" that it's secure? We could rename "secure" to "safe" to downtone it a bit, but it's still an improvement on the nominal equality comparison.

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> Antoine, seriously? You want to explore a function that's called
> "secure" when the only thing you know about it is "probably secure"?
> This is extremely tricky business and I think it should be called
> secure only if you can prove it's secure. Otherwise it's plain
> insecure and should not be named that.

What's the methodology to "prove" that it's secure?

We could rename "secure" to "safe" to downtone it a bit, but it's still
an improvement on the nominal equality comparison.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-06-14 10:18:30	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, arigo, christian.heimes, fijall, hynek
2012-06-14 10:18:29	pitrou	link	issue15061 messages
2012-06-14 10:18:29	pitrou	create