Re: [Haskell-cafe] I've just heard of a neat security measure that when you compile the code it generates different object code...

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:27 PM, KC wrote:

... with the same functionality.

Thus, your program would be a moving target to hackers.

Would this be challenging with ghc?

Although it's possible, I doubt this would do anything. Most exploits are just programmer mistakes; changing the object code doesn't change the fact that there's a gaping security hole in your program. Plus, it would be harder to debug the compiler, since the mangling code would be non-deterministic by definition. So I doubt anyone would try to implement that.