Re: obj-c vs. java for secure system development
Re: obj-c vs. java for secure system development
- Subject: Re: obj-c vs. java for secure system development
- From: "ian" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:45:20 -0600
the Java platform has a great security aspect... but just like any
framework or program, the person behind it inevitably causes the security
problems...
e.g. - nothing stops you from providing your objective c code within a
JVM...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Rice" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: obj-c vs. java for secure system development
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Something I've been wondering about Cocoa is: How secure is it? I was
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just reminded of this thought when seeing this essay posted on another
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list http://michael.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/
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One doesn't generally hear about buffer overruns in Cocoa apps. But
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maybe that's because there are few cocoa apps out there?
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Java has the whole bytecode-verification thing going for it, and
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although I think it does actually have pointers (handles?) it has no
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pointer arithmetic and no direct memory access like C does.
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Seems to me Objective-C could be just as bad as C code except the ObjC
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frameworks have had many years of scrutiny to see all the dangerous
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mistakes.
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Alex Rice <email@hidden>
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Mindlube Software
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http://mindlube.com/
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