[93111] in Cypherpunks
Re: autonomous agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jan 13 03:12:30 1998
In-Reply-To: <199801121925.TAA00539@server.eternity.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:06:33 -0800
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, eternity@internexus.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 11:25 AM -0800 1/12/98, Adam Back wrote:
>For agents to be able to achieve anything useful, the Java sandbox
>model has to be relaxed to allow the agent to make network connections
>to other than the machine the code was served from. Java has support
>for this in that signed applications are allowed to make external
>network connections.
The Java security model proposed for version 1.2 (now in some form of beta)
supports this kind of distinction.
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