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Polyglot (computing)

In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script (or other file) written in a valid form of multiple programming languages or file formats. The name was coined by analogy to multilingualism. A polyglot file is composed by combining syntax from two or more different formats.

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Polyglot (computing)

Nodes71
Edges70
Triples1
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028169
Components1

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polyglot file formats bash valid files php format syntax interpreted two program example written languages different used security malware document

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fileinstance ofit is possible to create a PDF-PDF polyglot that renders as two entirely different documents in two different PDF readers.Detecting malware concealed within polyglot files requi…0.80text

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