[Info-vax] SAMBA and Ransomeware

[Craig A. Berry]

On Monday, July 17, 2017 at 3:52:02 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:


> >Naive question: Are the protocols fundamentally broken, security wise, or,
> >in theory, could a good VMS programmer given the SMBx spec and no existing
> >code as a bad example, write a secure SAMBA implementation from scratch?
> 
> Unknown, since nobody has actually seen the SMB spec outside of Microsoft,
> and SAMBA exists entirely due to reverse-engineering of the protocol.

So you're quite sure no one outside of Microsoft has read any of the following documents?

<http://www.snia.org/sites/default/education/tutorials/2012/fall/file/JoseBarreto_SMB3_Remote_File_Protocol_revision.pdf>

<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246232.aspx>

<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246231.aspx>

<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246482.aspx>