21 May
2024
21 May
'24
3:14 a.m.
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 05:00:40PM -0400, Ben Kallus wrote:
What I meant was that the LangSec people reject the
robustness
principle as it is commonly understood (i.e., make a "reasonable"
guess when receiving garbage)
That most certainly is not what I took from what Postel said. And I
say that as someone who designed a distributed system that had client
and server sides and had to make that work across versions from last
week to 10-20 years ago.
I took it more as "Be more and more careful what you say, get that more
correct with each release, but tolerate the less correct stuff you might
get from earlier versions". In no way did I think he meant ``make a
"reasonable" guess when receiving garbage''. Garbage is garbage, you
error on that.
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