“Arash Baratloo and Navjot Singh two of the primary
developers for Libsafe, a free software library that protects
against security exploits based on buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
They work as members of the Network Software Research Department at
Bell Labs, the R&D arm of Lucent Technologies.“
“…Linux.com: How long has Libsafe been in
development?”
“Arash Baratloo: The work that led to Libsafe
(and Libverify, which is a complementary work) was based on our
research interests in computer systems and not computer security —
security was the application domain of our systems work.”
“The research conducted at Bell Labs, which led to projects such
as SwiFT and ntDts, was the foundation of Libsafe (and Libverify).
Hence, the research effort, which led to several projects including
Libsafe, has a long history. The actual development time of Libsafe
(and Libverify) was quite short.”