RE: retranslation

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bullwinkle--the rabbit from the hat.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:45 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: retranslation
>
>
> From: Patrick Botz <botz@us.ibm.com>
> > A much better alternative is to always retranslate anything
> that comes on
> > your system and not let it on if it can't be retranslated
> >
> > You can do this today in V5R2.
>
> 1) many people (most!) are not on V5R2.
> 2) many vendors (most!) ship products that
> are created on earlier releases with no observability.
> 3) how do we know that the translation template has
> not been monkeyed with? I know your answer
> will be that that is impossible, but that was the
> answer to many of the earlier problems too:
> Can passwords be cracked? Impossible!
> Can pointers be counterfeited? Impossible!
> Can program validation value be faked? Impossible,
> etc.
>
> But, as Yogi Bear said: "this time for sure!"
>
>
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