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On 04/18/2014 03:26 AM, Stevens Le Blond wrote: > > Hello, > > We are a team of researchers working on the design and > implementation of a traffic-analysis resistant anonymity network > and we would like to request your opinion regarding the choice of a > programming language / environment. Here are the criteria: > > 1) Familiarity: The language should be familiar or easy to learn > for most potential contributors, as we hope to build a diverse > community that builds on and contributes to the code. > > 2) Maturity: The language implementation, tool chain and libraries > should be mature enough to support a production system. > > 3) Language security: The language should minimize the risk of > security relevant bugs like buffer overflows. > > 4) Security of runtime / tool chain: It should be hard to > inconspicuously backdoor the tool chain and, if applicable, > runtime environments. I'd like to throw my $0.02 in for Python. If it's written properly and optimized, you can get impressive speed from it, it's got a great community, a huge standard library, and great third party modules. It's also /very/ hard to shoot yourself in the foot like you can in some other languages. Cypher - -- Want to communicate with me privately? Find my PGP public key here: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5BAEB5B2FA26826B Fingerprint: 6728 40CE 35EE 0BF3 2E15 C7CC 5BAE B5B2 FA26 826B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTUYiBAAoJEFuutbL6JoJrP2kP/0fZ9q7Z4AOFQY8Zu9wmcp9k INWxN8pQyTFsOgbN8gTyFEQFFngMRdQhsgfzczPBqpcSubMzliu29KKL3UODGjdV fQP+SutsoXJKTf9NeJnkar1Hv0FTjtgRcYRRQuA9kJNACIjR+Ot8xHYOMpdIuOPU RKCu9QLkJUP6/ehn960ulS/befmd01qeDucEzTgGTfjqpct8CfVq35+tohfK7UaH hqO4yJyOfSewOhT1Z8W7gEKZzdrpnQXZjiY8LNSGqC2/S+dmf6OF7lNGmpQTpc/c EGFyng7wwV7bfbAn/e7wGn4BDcr8PvhKJhddtUG9680oX4KUibMqsW3wAUwXNM+l zIOjs2i/c9EPCHb16U9uf3YXufV1WhiuHk3dFS3vR6m4bys1UU6oBoHlrunibzRp ZUud542843n/+Yf4iDG6vI3OkJB8MrIzdIBkpg1l88areBqYc7FgHpGOqmq7jQ/e tMc1gl3sdmgr6+UL+xSsR2zss7ribXcyaEyRI1ad2NfTRyUF2vWD7nf0Ii9ztogO rd9Tyx4pMCgpC6bfkAJ5mv1hQQwO1dk94G58G1Vn1lundST9L/CjMNKOvJQQog7G SP4Mt36lUqszI/c13CkWBf9K1+8WqMFUbx7gLpTHkn9MyaBCP7VpEcHhQrze12yx Au8ZaEe91+CKPjNdwnoj =yBd/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
