[Cryptography] Swift and cryptography

[David Mercer]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Swift currently seems to wrap (nearly) all the current Objective-C types,
classes and libraries. If you go searching through all the Apple iOS
developer docs, you now will see options to show docs for Swift,
Objective-C or All, much like how MS has all the class library docs for
VisualStudio arranged similarly. And all those things with the "NS" prefix,
which are legion, date back to the NextStep era of the late 1980's. Big
legacy security footprint.

-David Mercer
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