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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 13:21:22 CEST 2006

Brett Cannon wrote:

On 7/23/06, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org <mailto:arigo at tunes.org>> wrote: Also, I hate to sound self-centered, but I should point out somewhere that PyPy was started by people who no longer wanted to maintain a fork of CPython, and preferred to work on building CPython-like variants automatically. Many of the security features you list would be quite easier to implement and maintain in PyPy than CPython -- also from a security perspective: it is easier to be sure that some protection is complete, and remains complete over time, if it is systematically generated instead of hand-patched in a dozen places.

It doesn't sound self-centered. =) Problem is that my knowledge base is obviously all in CPython so my startup costs are much lower than if I tried this in PyPy. Plus there is the point of embedding this into Firefox (possibly) eventually. Does PyPy support embedding yet at the C level?

Another rationale for basing the work on CPython is that it should be possible to implement the resulting security model regardless of the implementation language used for the interpreter core (C/Python, Java/Python, C#/Python, RPython/Python). If you can figure out how to do it in C, it should be feasible to do it in the others.

Cheers, Nick.

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