Challenges facing secure mobile code

• Secure distributed programs

  • CORBA, RMI
  • complex identity not understood well

• Persistence, linking, and versioning

  • serialization and the environment problem

• Understanding code signing

  • signatures are good only for vouching, not authorship
  • environment deeply affects behavior

• Denial of service

  • synchronization

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