[mplspm]: Helpful info on Safe module

[James.FitzGibbon]

Well, it's safer than a blind eval, should you ever be in the unfortunate
position of having to that.

I did think that the Penguin module was a good use of Safe, though it never
seemed to go anywhere.

Penguin allowed you to bundle up a block of code, PGP sign it, and send it
to a
remote server.  The remote server verified your signature, then constructed
a Safe
compartment and ran your code.

There haven't been updates to the module in some time though, so the choice
of a
flightless bird as a moniker was perhaps more apt than the author intended.

Still, the idea of Safe was good - I think one big problem was that you
needed to
really grok perlguts and Opcode in order to do much useful with it.

Anyone have any experience with SafeTcl who could compare and contrast?

-- 
j.
 
James FitzGibbon                     
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james.fitzgibbon at target.com 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Rolsky [mailto:autarch at urth.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:03 PM
> To: Minneapolis Perl Mongers (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [mplspm]: Helpful info on Safe module
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, James.FitzGibbon wrote:
> 
> > I ran across this today.  Unrelated to anything we've been 
> talking about
> > for tomorrow, but still something that a few people would 
> find helpful
> > I'm sure.
> >
> > http://raleigh.pm.org/talks/safe/safe1.html
> 
> Hmm, Ken and a lot of other people who've looked closely at 
> Safe.pm seem
> to think it's not all that useful.
> 
> 
> -dave
> 
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