[Haskell-cafe] I've just heard of a neat security measure that when you compile the code it generates different object code...

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:43:11PM +1300, Chris Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:27 PM, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ... with the same functionality.
> >
> > Thus, your program would be a moving target to hackers.
> >
> > Would this be challenging with ghc?
> 
> Although it's possible, I doubt this would do anything. Most exploits
> are just programmer mistakes; changing the object code doesn't change
> the fact that there's a gaping security hole in your program. Plus, it
> would be harder to debug the compiler, since the mangling code would
> be non-deterministic by definition. So I doubt anyone would try to
> implement that.

I could help though if you want to write a virus in Haskell ;)

/M

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