Addressing security issues in programming languages for mobile code

Author

Gritzalis, S. ; Iliadis, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Syst., Univ. of the Aegean, Athens, Greece

fYear

1998

fDate

25-28 Aug 1998

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

293

Abstract

The services offered to the Internet community have been constantly increasing in the last few years. This is mainly due to the fact that mobile code has matured enough to provide Internet users with high quality applications that can be executed remotely. When a user downloads and executes code from various Internet sources, security issues arise. We address the latter and we present a comparative evaluation of the methods used by Java, Safe-Tcl and ActiveX in order to confront these issues, based on current security functions and implementations as well as on future adjustments and extensions

Keywords

Internet; authoring languages; computer communications software; object-oriented languages; parallel programming; security of data; ActiveX; Internet community; Internet sources; Internet users; Java; Safe-Tcl; comparative evaluation; future adjustments; high quality applications; mobile code; programming languages; security functions; security issues; Communication system security; Computer languages; Educational technology; Informatics; Information security; Internet; Java; Libraries; Runtime environment; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1998. Proceedings. Ninth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8353-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.1998.707415

Filename

707415