Re: Web browser in Ada

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Peter C. Chapin expounded in
news:4bd23c72$0$2399$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net: 

> Gautier write-only wrote:
> 
>> My impression is that a good part of vulnerabilities are indeed
>> within plug-ins, another good part is between the browser and a
>> plug-in (typically, browser X need to be patched but not the others
>> nor the plug-in), and the third part, important as well, is about
>> CSS, JavaScript, image storage or decoding, XML, HTML parsing and
>> other core parts of browsers.
> 
> I had actually thought that building a web browser in Ada would be a
> nice project (if only I had more time!). I'm not sure how much of a
> difference in security it would make... probably some.
> 
> Any browser that could be realistically used would need to support
> JavaScript. While an Ada JavaScript implementation might (or might
> not) be more secure than a C implementation, it seems to me that any
> vulnerability related to the JavaScript language itself would still be
> a risk. 
..
> Peter

To do it "right" would involve rewriting almost everything
above the O/S level, as you implied. Everything including
the image rendering libraries would be necessary.

The trick perhaps, is to convince the Military to do it as 
an open sourced project. ;-)

Warren