Darkreading: Secure Coding Certification

[coley at linus.mitre.org (Steven M. Christey)]

On Sat, 12 May 2007, ljknews wrote:

> but based on biases I see on this list, I tend to believe that those
> who make such a certification scheme would bias it toward:
>
>       Programming done in C and derivative languages (C++, Java, etc.)
>
>       Programming relying on TCP/IP
>
> neither of which is relevant to my endeavors.

The test is intended to cover the language areas and programming idioms
that are most likely to be taught at the university level and used by
programmers with only a couple years' experience.

- Steve