On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Rich Salz wrote:
> > and I'd bet a zillion bucks that there are awful vulnerabilities lurking
> > in the cracks where nobody could possibly have thought to look. -Tim
>
> There are some that are inherent in XML itself: entities for example,
> and the fact that there are no size limits (element name with 1e6
> characters, or 1e6 attributes, or a document 1e6 elements deep). This
> makes XML inherently more "dangerous" than classic binary formats like
> ASN.1/DER.
Maybe SGML would be more secure? Hard limits on element name sizes and
attribute counts could be enforced in the SGML declaration.
// Gregory Murphy. Isopaleocopria.
