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Re: Anyone know of a white paper on security?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Dec 8 14:39:13 1995

From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: jfricker@vertexgrp.com (John Fricker)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:37:22 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512081938.LAA01395@vertex.vertexgroup.com> from "John Fricker" at Dec 8, 95 10:49:54 am

John Fricker wrote:
|     The question I'm seeking to answer is : 
| 
| What criteria should be used to determine whether a scripting
| language such as Java, LiveScript, etc. is secure? 
| 
| There are obvious issues such as access to the file system but has
| anyone thought this all the way through and codified a white paper? 

	First you need to decide what you mean by secure.  Then you
need to prove your code is correct, and conforms to the spec.  Any
high school student could do it.  :)




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