Advanced Unix programming techniques

                         December 2002 by Marcel-Titus MARGINEAN

• Ancillary Data. Passing descriptors and credentials.
  • Sending an receiving messages
  • How to receive credentials
  • How to send opened descriptors
  • Applications
  • Security considerations
• Trusted programs
  • What are trusted programs and why do we need them
  • Authentication of a trusted program
  • Aditional security checkings
• Client/Server model design issues.
  • Review of the model
  • Client/Server weigth design
  • Sys++ Model
• Shared libraries security issues.
• Introduction to shared library
• Shared library attack
• Plugins -- dynamically loading shared libraries
• Building a plugin manager in C++
• Imutable files, what they can do .
• Why C++ is more secure than old good plain C ?