[PD] denial of service attack

Andy Farnell padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Fri Oct 16 10:08:12 CEST 2009


Exponentials are nature's trees, you have to learn
to drive around them. This is a signpost.


On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:12:14 +0100
Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> WHYYYYY????
> 
> > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:06:53 +0100
> > From: claudiusmaximus at goto10.org
> > To: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: [PD] denial of service attack
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Having failed to sleep I constructed a tiny example patch that might 
> > crash your Pd or worse.
> > 
> > It's based on the "XML Entity Explosion" attack, but I was initially 
> > inspired by some recent "exponential type-checking time" discussion on 
> > the Haskell mailing lists.
> > 
> > 
> > Claude
> > -- 
> > http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org
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