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Testing With Hostile Data Streams, Alan A. Jorgensen
Testing With Hostile Data Streams, Alan A. Jorgensen
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications
This note describes a method of testing software for response to malicious data streams. Systems that process data streams obtained from an external source such as the Internet are vulnerable to security issues if malicious data is not processed correctly. This note describes a testing method that creates malicious data streams, applies them to a software application and checks the appropriateness of the application response. The note begins with a description of the problem: inadequate testing of software response to malicious data streams. I present a method of testing the response to malicious data streams and introduce the concepts of …