[Python-Dev] Python security team (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Sun Sep 28 17:04:52 CEST 2008

Le Sunday 28 September 2008 02:45:14 Brett Cannon, vous avez écrit :

> Second, I would like to help to fix all Python security issues. It looks > like Python community isn't very reactive (proactive?) about security. > Eg. a DoS was reported in smtpd server (integrated to Python)... 15 > months ago. A patch is available but it's not applied in Python trunk.

Historically we have not been proactive.

Well, I just asked to know the current status. First step for a secure program is to know its limits ;)

Nope. I think my paper and blog posts are about the best you are going to find

I will try to write a document about Python and security next week.

-- Victor Stinner aka haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/blog/

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