On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Ricc Harding <[email protected]>wrote:
> SPFCopy's "magic" SVC went thru several iterations to make it secure too. > It > was one of those SVC's that was written to be "serially secure".... but in > a > multi-tasking environment when two or more tasks could be set up to run > concurrently, then a "serially secure" task, doing what it did in a secure > manner (if it was the only thing running) allowed everyone running in the > address space to participate in the authorization. STATUS STOP became very > much a requirement for those serially secure tasks to remain such. > The truth is that there is no such thing as a secure magic SVC (or PC) no matter how creative its authors are. -- This email might be from the artist formerly known as CC (or not) You be the judge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
