OpenEuphoria

Re: Will euphoria run, or get executed by the new security

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com May 25, 2003
• 395 views

Near as i can tell, Euphoria interpreter will run if Robert gets M$ Palladium 
certification for the interpreter exe. It's liable to be pricey and take time to
be
certified, making beta releases fewer, and jacking up the price of the 
releases. If we compile anything, it most likely will not be distributeable,
best
case is it will get caught in a warning and prompt asking the user if they 
want to drop all "protection", hardly heartwarming, hardly instilling a sense of
trust in your customers. It most likely will be restricted as to what it can do,
like sys calls and asm code blocks and raw memory managing. The first 
release of "security" code is due out later this year.

In a way, this will make computers run slower, due to the cpu essentially 
interpreting the exe before running it, analysing each move the app makes. If 
a user cannot disable "protection", email sent to a "secure" box from an 
"unsecure" box will be unreadable, and replying to a "secure" box from an 
"insecure" box will also be unreadable. M$ will also be redesigning basic 
TCP/IP, changing the packet sizes and the bit allocation within each packet, 
making obsolete all previous socks dll's. They got practice with this in winXP 
and win2k. The packets will contain personal fingerprints of the source 
computer, which will be stored hashed in the cpu registers and bios.

http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html

You XP users will find the snooping ability of M$ to be more alarming at this 
url:
http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24815.html

Ironically, Palladium and Fiskchip are making me feel a lot *less* secure.

Kat