[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] UGP / SecureSqueak version 0.1 released
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Sep 23 03:30:19 UTC 2009
Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> I'm announcing version 0.1 of my Unnamed Grand Project, including naïve
> versions of SecureSqueak, Subcanvas, SiteBrowser and DPON.
The UGP, eh? Very funny ;-) I need to find some to play with it
(hopefully on the weekend now that the new release is out) but as a
general question, do you feel that there are parts that are "ready" for
wider consumption? If so, what parts feel like worth looking at?
Cheers,
- Andreas
> Download from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/securesqueak/
> Or watch the video: http://vimeo.com/6698843.
>
> This release "barely works". It is for curious onlookers who want to
> poke the code with a stick to see if it moves.
>
> I've only tested this under the Linux VM. I'm not sure if it will run on
> the Windows or Mac VMs; it requires that the EventSensor's
> inputSemaphore is signalled from the VM. Also, if you're worried about
> security, this release opens up a TCP socket and basically runs anything
> that comes in on it. If you're worried, disconnect yourself from the
> Internet first. Later releases will be more secure.
>
> The Unnamed Grand Project is like a web browser but different. Instead
> of loading HTML, the user will interact with distributed objects. The
> downloadable image above does this for three simple "sites", downloading
> their implementation and running them locally.
>
> SecureSqueak is a fork of Squeak which provides a sandboxed environment
> to run untrusted, remotely loaded code. Later versions will be
> progressively more secure.
>
> Subcanvas is a graphics/event-handling framework. It does a similar job
> to the EventSensor, Display, Form and BitBlt classes. It provides a
> secure API with optimisable implementations.
>
> SiteBrowser is the user interface built on Subcanvas which lets the user
> interact with distributed objects.
>
> DPON is an object replication framework. It lets objects move between
> images. It can replicate most objects in the image using a number of
> replication algorithms, and will also replicate the classes of those
> objects and any dependencies.
>
> Unfortunately, PbWiki seems to be down, but when it works again I'll add
> more information at http://gulik.pbwiki.com/SecureSqueak and consider
> finding another wiki hosting site.
>
> Gulik.
>
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> http://gulik.pbwiki.com/
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