Building secure software: how to avoid security problems the right way

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Contents
Foreword
Preface
	Organization
	Code Examples
	Contacting Us
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Software Security
	It’s All about the Software
	Dealing with Widespread Security Failures
		Bugtraq
		CERT Advisories
		RISKS Digest
	Technical Trends Affecting Software Security
	The ’ilities
		What Is Security?
		Isn’t That Just Reliability?
	Penetrate and Patch Is Bad
	On Art and Engineering
	Security Goals
		Prevention
		Traceability and Auditing
		Monitoring
		Privacy and Confidentiality
		Multilevel Security
		Anonymity
		Authentication
		Integrity
	Know Your Enemy: Common Software Security Pitfalls
	Software Project Goals
	Conclusion
2 Managing Software Security Risk
	An Overview of Software Risk Management for Security
	The Role of Security Personnel
	Software Security Personnel in the Life Cycle
		Deriving Requirements
		Risk Assessment
		Design for Security
		Implementation
		Security Testing
	A Dose of Reality
	Getting People to Think about Security
	Software Risk Management in Practice
		When Development Goes Astray
		When Security Analysis Goes Astray
	The Common Criteria
	Conclusion
3 Selecting Technologies
	Choosing a Language
	Choosing a Distributed Object Platform
		CORBA
		DCOM
		EJB and RMI
	Choosing an Operating System
	Authentication Technologies
		Host-Based Authentication
		Physical Tokens
		Biometric Authentication
		Cryptographic Authentication
		Defense in Depth and Authentication
	Conclusion
4 On Open Source and Closed Source
	Security by Obscurity
		Reverse Engineering
		Code Obfuscation
		Security for Shrink-Wrapped Software
		Security by Obscurity Is No Panacea
	The Flip Side: Open-Source Software
	Is the “Many-Eyeballs Phenomenon” Real?
		Why Vulnerability Detection Is Hard
		Other Worries
	On Publishing Cryptographic Algorithms
	Two More Open-Source Fallacies
		The Microsoft Fallacy
		The Java Fallacy
	An Example: GNU Mailman Security
	More Evidence: Trojan Horses
	To Open Source or Not to Open Source
	Another Security Lesson from Buffer Overflows
	Beating the Drum
	Conclusion
5 Guiding Principles for Software Security
	Principle 1: Secure the Weakest Link
	Principle 2: Practice Defense in Depth
	Principle 3: Fail Securely
	Principle 4: Follow the Principle of Least Privilege
	Principle 5: Compartmentalize
	Principle 6: Keep It Simple
	Principle 7: Promote Privacy
	Principle 8: Remember That Hiding Secrets Is Hard
	Principle 9: Be Reluctant to Trust
	Principle 10: Use Your Community Resources
	Conclusion
6 Auditing Software
	Architectural Security Analysis
		Attack Trees
		Reporting Analysis Findings
	Implementation Security Analysis
		Auditing Source Code
		Source-level Security Auditing Tools
		Using RATS in an Analysis
		The Effectiveness of Security Scanning of Software
	Conclusion
7 Buffer Overflows
	What Is a Buffer Overflow?
	Why Are Buffer Overflows a Security Problem?
	Defending against Buffer Overflow
	Major Gotchas
	Internal Buffer Overflows
	More Input Overflows
	Other Risks
	Tools That Can Help
	Smashing Heaps and Stacks
	Heap Overflows
	Stack Overflows
		Decoding the Stack
		To Infinity . . . and Beyond!
	Attack Code
		A UNIX Exploit
		What About Windows?
	Conclusion
8 Access Control
	The UNIX Access Control Model
		How UNIX Permissions Work
		Modifying File Attributes
		Modifying Ownership
		The umask
		The Programmatic Interface
		Setuid Programming
	Access Control in Windows NT
	Compartmentalization
	Fine-Grained Privileges
	Conclusion
9 Race Conditions
	What Is a Race Condition?
	Time-of-Check, Time-of-Use
		Broken passwd
		Avoiding TOCTOU Problems
	Secure File Access
	Temporary Files
	File Locking
	Other Race Conditions
	Conclusion
10 Randomness and Determinism
	Pseudo-random Number Generators
		Examples of PRNGs
		The Blum-Blum-Shub PRNG
		The Tiny PRNG
		Attacks Against PRNGs
		How to Cheat in On-line Gambling
		Statistical Tests on PRNGs
	Entropy Gathering and Estimation
		Hardware Solutions
		Software Solutions
		Poor Entropy Collection: How to Read “Secret” Netscape Messages
	Handling Entropy
	Practical Sources of Randomness
		Tiny
		Random Numbers for Windows
		Random Numbers for Linux
		Random Numbers in Java
	Conclusion
11 Applying Cryptography
	General Recommendations
		Developers Are Not Cryptographers
		Data Integrity
		Export Laws
	Common Cryptographic Libraries
		Cryptlib
		OpenSSL
		Crypto++
		BSAFE
		Cryptix
	Programming with Cryptography
		Encryption
		Hashing
		Public Key Encryption
		Threading
		Cookie Encryption
	More Uses for Cryptographic Hashes
	SSL and TLS (Transport Layer Security)
	Stunnel
	One-Time Pads
	Conclusion
12 Trust Management and Input Validation
	A Few Words on Trust
	Examples of Misplaced Trust
		Trust Is Transitive
		Protection from Hostile Callers
		Invoking Other Programs Safely
		Problems from the Web
		Client-side Security
		Perl Problems
		Format String Attacks
	Automatically Detecting Input Problems
	Conclusion
13 Password Authentication
	Password Storage
	Adding Users to a Password Database
	Password Authentication
	Password Selection
		More Advice
		Throwing Dice
		Passphrases
		Application-Selected Passwords
	One-Time Passwords
	Conclusion
14 Database Security
	The Basics
	Access Control
	Using Views for Access Control
	Field Protection
	Security against Statistical Attacks
	Conclusion
15 Client-side Security
	Copy Protection Schemes
		License Files
		Thwarting the Casual Pirate
		Other License Features
		Other Copy Protection Schemes
		Authenticating Untrusted Clients
	Tamperproofing
		Antidebugger Measures
		Checksums
		Responding to Misuse
		Decoys
	Code Obfuscation
		Basic Obfuscation Techniques
		Encrypting Program Parts
	Conclusion
16 Through the Firewall
	Basic Strategies
	Client Proxies
	Server Proxies
	SOCKS
	Peer to Peer
	Conclusions
Appendix A: Cryptography Basics
	The Ultimate Goals of Cryptography
	Attacks on Cryptography
	Types of Cryptography
	Symmetric Cryptography
		Types of Symmetric Algorithms
		Security of Symmetric Algorithms
	Public Key Cryptography
	Cryptographic Hashing Algorithms
		Other Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes
		What’s a Good Hash Algorithm to Use?
	Digital Signatures
	Conclusions
References
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