On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:57 +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Heikki Orsila <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Good work..
> >
> > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:28:31PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > > Facts for LZO (at least for original code. Should hold true for this
> > > port also - hence the RFC!):
> > > - The compressor can never overrun buffer.
> > > - The "non-safe" version of decompressor can never overrun buffer if
> > > compressed data is unmodified. I am not sure about this if compressed
> > > data is malicious (to be confirmed from the author).
> > > - The "safe" version can never crash (buffer overrun etc.) - confirmed
> > > from the author.
> >
> > What's the proof?
>
> I confirmned these from the author - I just ported this code. I think
> he can answer you better - CC'ed him :-)
The thing is this is more your code now, not his and you should be able
to answer this question...
Regards,
Richard
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