Browsing Harvard Law School by Author "Larochelle, David"
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How and Why More Secure Technologies Succeed in Legacy Markets: Lessons from the Success of SSH
Rosasco, Nicholas; Larochelle, David (2003)Secure shell (SSH) can safely be called one of the rare successes in which a more secure technology has largely replaced a less secure but entrenched tool: telnet. We perform a market analysis to determine how and why SSH ... -
Statically Detecting Likely Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Larochelle, David; Evans, David (2001)Buffer overflow attacks may be today’s single most important security threat. This paper presents a new approach to mitigating buffer overflow vulnerabilities by detecting likely vulnerabilities through an analysis of the ... -
Towards a Model of the Costs of Security
Larochelle, David; Rosasco, Nicholas (2003)We present a simple information security model to determine why, historically, the level of security has not increased despite numerous technical advances. In our model, the software design process involves trade-offs ...