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Re: [Full-disclosure] Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation
- From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:39:50 -0400
Cisco is responsible for this entire mess. Had they engineered a secure
product around a CPU that was not general purpose, none of this would be
happening now.
Okay .. so we write 'special purpose' shellcode then. Cisco could have
designed the CPU as a ASIC, at the expense of being able to
field-upgrade like they can with software -- or they could have used
something like a FPGA to emulate an ASIC, at the expense of cost.
Everything's a trade off.
~Mike.
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