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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