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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a335a9b2bdf7d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: AI, security, just wondering. Date: 1998/11/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 410479239 Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) References: <36484B8C.84EEC61D@interact.net.au> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dizzy Casablanca writes: > One last issue, - I have noticed that thre are compilers available to > compile Java bytecode with Ada. My knowledge is admittedly limited, but > I am wondering if this doesn't introduce additional security issues... > can Ada compiled into Java class files do things which java could not > itself do, and get around the limitations on applets in browsers ? No. The Java Virtual Machine is supposed to deal with security in the proper way. It doesn't matter where the byte codes come from (Java compiler, Ada compiler, or some hacker putting in bits by hand). If there are security holes, they're not the fault of the compiler that produced the byte codes, or the language that's being compiled. >...Or > does the fact that ada is being used not change the security thing at > all ? Yes. - Bob -- Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.