RE: To diversify and survive: the application of population biolo gy concept into computer

["Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe () usg com>]

The concept of diversity in computer systems is nothing new. There
are plenty of papers on the subject available, one is at:

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/publications/hotos-97.pdf


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Huang [mailto:yinrong () rogers com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:06 PM
> To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Subject: To diversify and survive: the application of 
> population biology
> concept into computer
>
>
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> On January 25, 2003, the SQL Slammer worm 
> (w2.SQLSlammer.worm), also known 
>
> as Sapphire (F-Secure), w32.SQLexp.worm (Symantec), and Helkern 
>
> (Kaspersky) fully exploited known vulnerabilities in 
> Microsoft SQL 2000 
>
> servers and caused tremendous network jam around the world. In this 
>
> article, the concept of population biology is proposed to 
> apply to the 
>
> computer programming. The concept is to diversify the same software 
>
> functionality with a population of executables to avoid being 
> eliminated 
>
> or exploited by a virus or worm like SQL Slammer.