[Cryptography] Simpler programs?

[Bill Frantz]

On 4/19/14 at 9:55 PM, ben at links.org (Ben Laurie) wrote:

>>Object are really an old idea. However, if properly used, they can provide
>>security barriers within an application. Java does a good job here as do a
>>number of other languages. Java lost out in the desktop market because it
>>took forever for the Java Virtual Machine to initialize itself. This problem
>>admits to several solutions and other object languages do not have this
>>problem.
>
>I think this is simplistic. Also, Java doesn't really do a good job
>because of reflection.

When I last looked closely -- Java 1.3 -- reflection couldn't 
access private variables. Have they changed that? (I always 
worry about people adding new features that break the security 
invariants I am depending on.)

Cheers - Bill

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