Security and Source Code Access: Issues and Realities

Authors:
Steven B. Lipner
Affiliations:
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Venue:
SP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This position paper addresses some of the benefits and drawbacks for security of open access to source code. After a discussion of alternative models for open access to source code, the paper reviews the positive and negative implications of each for system security. The paper concludes that source code review can have real benefits for security, but that those benefits are not realized automatically, and that some source code access models introduce significant drawbacks.