[Cryptography Team] Re: Securing the VM and Image (was: Suggestions for C++ or DLL code)

On 31-Jul-06, at 1:18 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

2. Disable the compiler for accepting or performing new code, but

allow it for already coded performs. (I'm sure this is much easier said then done).

If you're using the same terminology that I'm used to, you don't need the compiler to execute #perform: type messages. All that does is tell the vm to pretend that the relevant message had been sent in the usual way. Similarly for blocks.

Hmm, I should probably qualify that with a "unless someone has recently massively changed the system in a way that would render them a target of the 'Ninjas of Smalltalk Doom'".

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