Security issue in developing Mac code -- not sure where to discuss
Security issue in developing Mac code -- not sure where to discuss
- Subject: Security issue in developing Mac code -- not sure where to discuss
- From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:05:48 -0700
I am not sure where to discuss issues related to developing
Macintosh code that uses the Internet to transmit data in
a secure manner: If anyone can suggest a better list, by all
means say so and I will go there. Meanwhile ...
I am developing a Macintosh application which will be capable
of running on a cluster of Macs; that is, each of a number of
Macs will be running a copy of the application (or of part
of it) and the different Macs will communicate with each
other to coordinate activity and share data: The app is not
a web-server-and-client kind of thing; I expect to be using
Internet socket connections directly, from within the
various instances of the application.
So far, I have described a very general programming issue
-- probably too general for this group. What I am wondering
about is what special support is available for this kind of
thing based on the fact that I am using Macintoshes, and have
all the facilities of MacOS and Xcode to develop and run with.
The app is a clustered version of Wraith Scheme, a parallel
Scheme implementation for the Mac that I have been developing
for some years. See the "Software" page of my web site (URL
below) if you are terminally curious. Wraith Scheme is very
powerful, and a malicious person who accessed it remotely
could do immense damage to the system it is running on.
(The actual number of users of any such clusters is likely
minuscule, so the probability that anyone will try to do such
a thing is small, but I would like to handle the security
issues as professionally as I can.)
Comments are welcome, as are suggestions to go elsewhere.
(People are *always* telling me where to go ...)
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site)
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