[Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Jul 20 19:04:43 CEST 2006

On 7/20/06, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote: >> The new doc is named securingpython.txt and >> can be >> found through the svn web interface at >> http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/bcannon-sandboxing/securingpython.txt?rev=50717&view=log . How do you plan to handle CPU-hogs? Stuff like execution of a gigantic integer multiplication.

I don't. =) Protecting the CPU is damn hard to do in any form of portable fashion. And even getting it to work on an OS you do know the details of leads to probably an interrupt implementation and that doesn't sound fun.

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