Release: RATS 1.2 and EGADS 0.7

[rats () securesw com]

Secure Software Solutions is pleased to announce the release of two
tools:


RATS 1.2:

RATS, the Rough Auditing Tool for Security, is a security auditing utility 
for C, C++, Python, Perl and PHP code. RATS scans source code, finding 
potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of this project is not 
to definitively find bugs. The current goal is to provide a reasonable 
starting point for performing manual security audits. RATS is released 
under version 2 of the GNU Public License (GPL).

We would like to thank DARPA for support of RATS through its CHATS program. 

This release of RATS adds support for scanning PHP code.

To download RATS, please visit http://www.securesw.com/rats/


EGADS 0.7

EGADS is a system service and library for providing secure random numbers. 
It contains an implementation of the Tiny pseudo-random number generator 
and the Tiny entropy gateway. Tiny is an evolution of Yarrow, and was 
designed by John Kelsey (an original designer of Yarrow) and John Viega. 
We are currently preparing a white paper on the Tiny algorithm.

EGADS provides the same kind of functionality as /dev/random and /dev/urandom 
on Linux systems, but works on Windows, and as a portable Unix program. 

EGADS is available as a portable user-level daemon for Unix systems, and as 
a service for Windows 2000 machines. An XP-compatible version will be 
available shortly. 


To download EGADS, please visit http://www.securesw.com/egads