Yes I have read it, however we don't run on PyPy, we use CPython. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Inviato da iPhone > > Il giorno 17 ott 2016, alle ore 11:19, Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > > For context from here: https://lwn.net/Articles/574215/ > > "I now agree that putting a sandbox in CPython is the wrong design. There > are too many ways to escape the untrusted namespace using the various > introspection features of the Python language. To guarantee the [safety] of > a security product, the code should be [carefully] audited and the code to > review must be as small as possible. Using pysandbox, the "code" is the > whole Python core which is a really huge code base. For example, the Python > and Objects directories of Python 3.4 contain more than 126,000 lines of C > code. > > The security of pysandbox is the security of its weakest part. A single > bug is enough to escape the whole sandbox." > > > Correct. In fact I am talking about this other: > > pypy.org and its sandboxing, that is: > http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/sandbox.html?highlight=Sandboxing > > that reports the interesting issues you can have with other solutions, as > CPython, for example. > Do you have read it ? If not, good reading :) > > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Honestly, this is getting tiresome. >> >> If you don't like the approval processes that we have in place currently >> you can create a new plugin repo, it's just an XML file exposed via >> webserver, there are docs around for it. >> >> You can give this URL to people and they can install your plugins via >> that. >> >> If you don't want to do that, then you will have to go through the >> approval process. I'm sure there are reasons it took longer than normal, >> maybe review those first. >> >> If you want to follow the sandboxed Python route and see how far you get >> fine, however again I suspect you are in for a long road given the complex >> nature of that and you would still have to >> be able to support what we can in core, etc. >> >> - Nathan >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Geo DrinX <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 2016-10-17 10:19 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Qgis uses CPython. You also have to sandbox Qt, so I suspect you are >>>> running into a lot of dead ends. >>>> >>> Thank you for the suggestion. We will see who is moving in dead ends. >>> :) >>> >>> I am the crow's nest of the ship and I am experiencing the arrival of >>> the iceberg. >>> And I hear the orchestra playing :) >>> >>> >>> Best regards and wishes for a safe journey. ;) >>> >>> >>> Geo >>> >>> PS: and then if you want to exit from the one direction maze you are >>> going, here I am. >>> PPS: in the meantime, take a look of this competition: >>> https://goo.gl/WR8LVF >>> >> >> >
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