From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-13 06:15:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!newstransit.mitre.org!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8F5D44.2E2E2EE7@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:08:04 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1016028508 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:08:28 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:08:28 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21156 Date: 2002-03-13T09:08:04-05:00 List-Id: > So rewrite the Linux kernel in Ada. People might try it as a curiosity since This is something I have been putting off doing for a long time. Not sure it would work, but seemed like the approach that would have less opposition than others. > Pick some applications with a long track record of vulnerabilities such as > sendmail or bind. Rewrite them in Ada. There'll be more vulnerabilities > reported and the Ada versions will be immune. Publicise it. I wouldn't be so sure of that. When the Ada version has had ten hours of maintenance, it will be more secure than the C version with fifty hours of maintenance. BUT, the C version had _thousands_ of hours of maintenance so long ago that few remember how bad it was back then. > We're working on it. If you're interested let me know. I am slightly interested. As I said, I had thoughts of doing that myself, but never got started. At home I now use Mach/BSD so I would only be willing to port components that would work in that environment. I don't have a separate machine to devote just to experiments. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau