From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 21 19:54:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17369 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:54:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@[206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17338 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23367; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:50:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807220250.UAA23367@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:50:18 -0600 To: "Allen Smith" , "Lee Crites (ASC)" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Translation to a safer language (Was: Projects to improve security) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9807212245.ZM12182@beatrice.rutgers.edu> References: <199807211859.MAA14931@lariat.lariat.org> <199807220125.TAA21968@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The question would be whether it would be efficient enough. Perl might drop back to near-interpreted speed if certain constructs were used. Also, Perl isn't strongly typed, so it might not catch certain errors. --Brett At 10:45 PM 7/21/98 -0400, Allen Smith wrote: >Might I suggest Perl at this point? > > A. it's got built-in security stuff such as tainting; > B. a Perl-to-C translator/complier is under active development > (indeed, as of last count the main problem was getting it > to turn out highly optimizable code, not in getting it to > turn out correct code); >and C. it already has similarities C in quite a few ways, making > porting easier. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message