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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Coding securely, was Linux (in)security



On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:44:55 +1300, Steve Wray <steve.wray@paradise.net.nz>  
said:

> Is it beyond all possibility that there exist languages in which
> the very reverse is true? ie Languages in which one would have to
> reimplement data types and so forth in order to be able to write
> insecure code?
> 
> Can there exist such a language?? I reckon so.

No.

All programming languages that are Turing-complete (basically, anything that
has a conditional loop) are prone to the Turing Halting Problem.

In other words, you can't prevent DoS-via-infinite-loop based on input.

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