-Djava.security.manager=problems for service providers

2018-03-27 Thread Peter Firmstone
Not sure if this is the right place to mention this. Anyone notice that specifying a custom security manager at jvm start up causes issues with service providers loading? If using the sun PolicyFile implementation, the policy doesn't load due to the provider failure, I have a custom policy i

Re: Parsing too strict in java.net.URI? (David Lloyd)

2017-12-02 Thread Peter Firmstone
Have there been any recent developments, updates, or insights on this issue? I wonder if a gradual change to RFC 3986 support might be more appropriate: for example, start with*just* accepting empty SSP. If the compatibility requirements of java.net.URI are too stringent to allow for any change

Secure Java Serialization - validation of untrusted data

2016-06-19 Thread Peter Firmstone
  Historically Java's strong type system has eliminated many security issues developers experience in other non type safe languages. De Serialization of untrusted / unvalidated data presents a problem for java, given the deployed software in use today. I have a working reimplimentation of deser

RFC3986 URI

2016-03-02 Thread Peter Firmstone
I haven't had time, but at one time I had planned to assist upgrading java.net.URI to RFC3986. I'm not the sole author of the Uri class which can be found here, however since it has a similar public api to java.net.URI, it could be used as a drop in replacement for testing the feasibility and i

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-12 Thread Peter Firmstone
. I'll keep an eye out for the JSR. When is a better timeframe, roughly, to discuss Serializable? Regards, Peter. - Original message - > On 11/08/2014 13:06, Peter Firmstone wrote: > > Thanks Alan, I can relate to time poverty :) > > > > I might be assuming t

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
eugster/Ribbons/RJ.pdf https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/peugster/Ribbons/ Got any links to info on extending access control rules? Regards, Peter. On 11/08/2014 9:21 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 09/08/2014 06:56, Peter Firmstone wrote: I've noticed there's not much interest in improving Seri

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
On 11/08/2014 8:12 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: Brian, Thanks for picking up on my frustration ;) I have something in mind for Serializable2 to address cyclic data structures and the possibility of independant evolution of super and child classes, while retaining a relatively clean public api

Re: The future of Serialization

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
Brian, Thanks for picking up on my frustration ;) I have something in mind for Serializable2 to address cyclic data structures and the possibility of independant evolution of super and child classes, while retaining a relatively clean public api, with one optional private method. The methods

The future of Serialization

2014-08-08 Thread Peter Firmstone
I've noticed there's not much interest in improving Serialization on these lists. This makes me wonder if java Serialization has lost relevance in recent years with the rise of protocol buffers apache thrift and other means of data transfer over byte streams. The burden of implementing Seriali

Re: State of Serialization

2014-07-28 Thread Peter Firmstone
On 28/07/2014 7:28 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: Updated files attached, including update to State of Serialization draft. For those who didn't get the attachment: *State of Java Serialization - Draft* Introduction The Java Serialization framework enables object state to be frozen, s

Re: State of Serialization

2014-07-28 Thread Peter Firmstone
Updated files attached, including update to State of Serialization draft. Note that the attached source code can be provided under the Oracle agreement. I'm a little time poor, so please contribute suggestions etc. Regards, Peter. On 26/07/2014 7:57 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: I'

Re: State of Serialization

2014-07-26 Thread Peter Firmstone
witch On 22/07/2014 1:10 AM, Tom Hawtin wrote: On 20/07/2014 11:57, Peter Firmstone wrote: Since private methods are only be called by the ObjectOutputStream / ObjectInputStream, during de-serialisation, subclass are not responsible for calling these methods, hence subclass ProtectionDomain

Re: java.net.URI and RFC 3986 compliance

2014-07-10 Thread Peter Firmstone
:11, Peter Levart wrote: On 07/10/2014 02:50 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: Are there parties on this list interested in updating java.net.URI to RFC3986? Is there anyone here who has previously attempted this? If so what issues did you find with regard to backward compatibility? Regards, Peter.

java.net.URI and RFC 3986 compliance

2014-07-09 Thread Peter Firmstone
Are there parties on this list interested in updating java.net.URI to RFC3986? Is there anyone here who has previously attempted this? If so what issues did you find with regard to backward compatibility? Regards, Peter.