http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991578 A new computer language designed to avoid unforeseen programming errors could prevent many computer security breaches, according to the US researchers behind the project. The language Cyclone is being created by a team of computer scientists at Cornell University and AT&T Labs in New York. Cyclone is a redesigned version of the programming language C, which is currently used to create many applications for different types of computers. Cyclone is designed to make almost impossible the inclusion of major bugs that force software vendors to release software patches and can lead to security breaches. "C is a very powerful language, but you can also hang yourself with that power," says Graham Hutton, an expert in computer languages at the University of Nottingham. "They are trying to have the power of C, but with a few more checks to make it a safer language to use - that is definitely a good thing." ... -- Elias Levy SecurityFocus http://www.securityfocus.com/ Si vis pacem, para bellum
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