[Cryptography] Swift and cryptography

[Tom Mitchell]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 12:52:34 -0400 Phillip Hallam-Baker
> <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> > It would be interesting to see how they manage strings. Do they
> > support something like the C# 'protected' class...
>
.....

> https://developer.apple.com/swift/
>
>
Re Swift
Do look hard at object and data reuse.

On a quick look Swift is not garbage collected, it is reference counted
and may be subject to fragmentation and other abuse.

It lives in a library world that builds on and depends
on existing Apple libraries and as such has all the risks
hidden therein.

Over time many libs will be revised so this risk is a moving
target....

I do not see any way to use this outside of Apple.newOS.this.fall....
This is good and bad but does not lend itself for the
development of  global internet safety.

It is built on llvm so llvm needs watching for interesting things.

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  T o m    M i t c h e l l
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