More Perl regex stuff in E

Mark S. Miller markm@caplet.com
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 07:39:21 -0700


At 07:32 AM 4/16/99 , shapj@us.ibm.com wrote:
>I would add to your list that the code is inspectable, and modulo clever 
>attacks
>within the JVM of the type described in Kernighan's Turing Award talk, it is
>therefore likely to be free of trojan horses.

Could you define "inspectable"?  If you mean human understandable, as 
opposed to obfuscated, I believe and hope that isn't true.  Our security 
should rest only on checks that the code starts with no privileges, and is 
constrained to follow capability discipline.  What kind of trojan horse do 
you have in mind?