Re: A modest proposal

[Ben Laurie <ben () links org>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Glenn and Mary Everhart
<everhart () gce com> wrote:
> Hello, FD...
> A thought occurred to me:
> Why not use the same kind of polymorphism and software metamorphism that
> is used by malware writers as a protective measure?
>
> If you have a piece of code that you don't want malware to be able to
> inspect, that might perhaps
> have some "secrets" in it or that you want not to be trivial to have
> some other code patch,
> why not arrange for that code to be different in form (but the same in
> function) with every copy?

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ has DARPA money to do just that. Not
convinced its a great idea myself.

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