Let's decide how this should be handled after SDK 1.10 release.

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:16 PM Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two things: having a separate git repo (or not), and having it
> part of the project or 3rd party. We can have multiple git repos on
> apache.org.
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 17:13 Mingshen Sun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Pei, I think Matt’s point is on the situation if you want to separate
> this
> > project as an individual project.
> >
> > So, for this tool, I think the question is whether to put it in the
> > `apache/incubator-mesatee` repo  or a new `apache/incubator-mesatee-xxx`
> > repo.
> >
> > Does this explanation clear to you?
> >
> > > On Dec 4, 2019, at 2:57 PM, Wang Pei <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Matt,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the thoughtful comments.
> > >
> > > There shouldn't be any problem with licensing. Regarding your other
> > > concerns, I have some more information. It's a very tiny tool (about
> 1300
> > > lines of Rust). It provides very limited functionality, and only works
> > with
> > > a particular version of the Rust compiler (the exact version specified
> by
> > > Teaclave and its dependencies). In this sense, releasing it as a
> separate
> > > tool seems a bit overkill. Indeed, it's a bit isolated in terms of
> > > development since it's a rustc plugin rather than anything directly
> > related
> > > to Teaclave. However, I don't think we will need to actively develop it
> > as
> > > we do for the rest part of Teaclave. There is no plan to expand its
> > > functionality, although it does need maintenance because every time
> > > Teaclave updates its toolchain version the internal APIs of rustc
> change.
> > >
> > > With all that said, I do see a point in making the tool as a separate
> > > project. More discussions are welcome!
> > >
> > > Pei
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:46 PM Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Whether you'd like to make this part of the project here or externally
> > >> really depends on a few things:
> > >>
> > >> * Licensing: if it's Apache licensed, then not an issue.
> > >> * Community: if it's a tool being developed by only one of the
> > >> committers, then it's fairly difficult for the rest of the community
> > >> to vote on releases for it.
> > >> * Releases: is it released on its own cycle from other repos? If so,
> > >> note what I mentioned about community which can cause releases to get
> > >> delayed waiting for enough votes.
> > >>
> > >> I suspect this component is appropriate to put here. Whether we'd like
> > >> it in its own git repo or not is another question.
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 14:08, Wang Pei <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> One of the features MesaTEE (now renamed as Teaclave) promised when
> it
> > >> was
> > >>> initially open-sourced is the so-called "Non-bypassable gateway."
> > >>> Basically, we would like to show that all interactions between the
> TEE
> > >> and
> > >>> the untrusted outside world are properly sanitized in our
> > implementation.
> > >>>
> > >>> As a first step towards this goal, I have implemented a tool that can
> > >>> extract the dependency graph of the crates built by Cargo. It's
> > >>> instrumentation to rustc that analyzes the Rust IR and stores
> > information
> > >>> with an embedded DB such that it can gather information collected by
> > >>> multiple rustc invocations.
> > >>>
> > >>> The tool provides three custom attributes: require_audit, audited,
> and
> > >>> entry_point. These attributes can annotate any item-like entities in
> > Rust
> > >>> code, including ADT, functions, traits, and impl blocks. Starting
> from
> > >> each
> > >>> entry_point, the tool traverses the dependency graph with DFS and
> > emits a
> > >>> warning whenever it encounters an item marked by require_audit unless
> > >>> another item marked by audited presents along the traversal path.
> > >>>
> > >>> The attributes have no effects on code generation and can be safely
> > >> ignored
> > >>> by anyone that does not care about code auditing.
> > >>>
> > >>> About how to publish the tool, there are two options. It can be part
> of
> > >>> mesatee-sgx, the fundamental dependency of the mesatee project. Or it
> > can
> > >>> be released as a standalone tool. In theory, it can be used to audit
> > >> other
> > >>> Rust projects, but I wonder how attractive that would be. Either way,
> > we
> > >>> have to annotate a lot of code in mesatee-sgx and mesatee to make the
> > >> tool
> > >>> acutally useful.
> > >>>
> > >>> Let me know your thoughts.
> > >>>
> > >>> Pei
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
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