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developerWorks: Software Security Analysis with BogoSec

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 2006

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“BogoSec is a source code metric tool that wraps multiple source
code scanners, invokes them on its target code, and produces a
final score that approximates the security quality of the code.
This article discusses the BogoSec methodology and implementation,
and illustrates the output of BogoSec when run on a number of test
cases, including Apache Web server, OpenSSH, Sendmail, Perl, and
others.

“The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) reported 5,990
vulnerabilities in 2005 compared with 171 in 1995…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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