Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Marcos Caceres
On 3/17/09, Frederick Hirsch wrote: > Marcos > > Rather than replicating this, which might be error prone and hard to > maintain, perhaps Widget Signature should reference P & C for this. > What do you think ? > I think that should be fine. > regards, Frederick > > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:15 AM,

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Frederick Hirsch
Marcos Rather than replicating this, which might be error prone and hard to maintain, perhaps Widget Signature should reference P & C for this. What do you think ? regards, Frederick On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:15 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: Hi Frederick, On 3/17/09 1:01 PM, Frederick Hir

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Arthur Barstow
Marcos, Frederick, I should have asked Frederick to make the changes Marcos suggested below. Sorry about that! Anyhow, Frederick agreed to make the changes. -Regards, Art Barstow On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:44 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: On 3/17/09 12:59 PM, Frederick Hirsch wrote: I alr

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Marcos Caceres
On 3/17/09 12:59 PM, Frederick Hirsch wrote: I already made this change :) to widget user agent. I think that should work... Sorry to be annoying, but we should be trying to architecturally design all the specs to behave as independent as possible (and eradicate the notion of an overall "

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Marcos Caceres
Hi Frederick, On 3/17/09 1:01 PM, Frederick Hirsch wrote: The latest draft includes the revised text from Thomas. Marcos, are you suggesting we add something more? It sounds like what you are saying here, is that it should be a valid widget file. Isn't that part of P&C checking? I'm not sure w

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Frederick Hirsch
I already made this change :) to widget user agent. I think that should work... On Mar 17, 2009, at 6:28 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Priestley, Mark, VF-Group wrote: --- Editorial comments --- General Te

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Frederick Hirsch
The latest draft includes the revised text from Thomas. Marcos, are you suggesting we add something more? It sounds like what you are saying here, is that it should be a valid widget file. Isn't that part of P&C checking? I'm not sure what it means to check that the paths are "as secure as

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Thomas Roessler wrote: > I'd suggest this instead: > >> Implementations should be careful about trusting path components found in >> the zip archive:  Such path components might be interpreted by operating >> systems as pointing at security critical files outside

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Marcin Hanclik wrote: > Hi Mark, > >>>"Implementations that store the content of widget archives to the file >system during signature verification MUST NOT trust any path components of >file names present in the archive, to avoid overwriting of arbitrary

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-17 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Priestley, Mark, VF-Group wrote: > --- > Editorial comments > --- > > General Terminology > > "Widget agent", "widget platform", "application"? -> "widget user > agent"? Lets just use "user agent". I don't think we s

RE: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-16 Thread Priestley, Mark, VF-Group
; ext Marcos Caceres; WebApps WG >Subject: Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update >(was RE: Widget Signature update) > >On 13 Mar 2009, at 15:50, Frederick Hirsch wrote: > >> Thanks for your review, I have some comments inline. Thomas, can you >> please review my

RE: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-16 Thread Priestley, Mark, VF-Group
ey, Mark, VF-Group >Cc: Frederick Hirsch; ext Marcos Caceres; WebApps WG; Thomas Roessler >Subject: Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update >(was RE: Widget Signature update) > >Mark > >Thanks for your review, I have some comments inline. Thomas, >can you ple

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-16 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 13 Mar 2009, at 15:50, Frederick Hirsch wrote: Thanks for your review, I have some comments inline. Thomas, can you please review my proposed change to the security considerations text Mark mentioned? I believe that you mean this piece of text: "Implementations that store the content of

Re: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-13 Thread Frederick Hirsch
Mark Thanks for your review, I have some comments inline. Thomas, can you please review my proposed change to the security considerations text Mark mentioned? Thanks regards, Frederick Frederick Hirsch Nokia On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:53 PM, ext Priestley, Mark, VF-Group wrote: Hi Frederic

RE: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-12 Thread Marcin Hanclik
c-webapps-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-webapps-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Priestley, Mark, VF-Group Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:54 PM To: Frederick Hirsch; ext Marcos Caceres Cc: WebApps WG Subject: [widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update) Hi Fred

[widgets] Comments on Widget Signature update (was RE: Widget Signature update)

2009-03-12 Thread Priestley, Mark, VF-Group
Hi Frederick, All, Some comments on the updated specification but first let me again say thanks for doing a great job making all the changes! --- Substantive comments --- 3 "Implementers are encouraged to provide mechanisms to enable end-users to