[cap-talk] Memory Safety (was: Midori in The Register)

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.com
Wed Aug 6 16:40:07 CDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:16 -0700, Mike Samuel wrote:

> It seems odd for a definition of type safety to depend on the
> definition of attacker.  Specifically, if Apache contributors are
> assumed not to be attackers, does that change whether or not apache is
> type-safe.


   See:  Mads Toffe, "Sound and Complete Inference for Systems
         Programmers". Journal of Functional Programmers, volume 15,
         Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Which gives a comprehensive treatment of this.



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