Re: packaged apps and origins

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Adida
On 4/25/13 10:34 PM, jsmith.mozi...@gmail.com wrote: 1. It's way too late for this work for v1.01 (i.e. v1.01 OOS) I want to emphasize that the current architecture is not just inconvenient, it breaks a ton of things, including all login solutions for packaged apps. This is a major problem

Re: packaged apps and origins

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Adida
On 4/26/13 3:02 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: What is origin used for? Can Persona not use object-capabilities instead? Do you mean that we should completely revamp the Persona protocol, including assertions to an origin and the way we present the login UI to users, because packaged apps don'

Re: packaged apps and origins

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Adida
On 4/25/13 5:45 PM, Justin Lebar wrote: If apps are served from and signed by the marketplace, then any origin is okay (after review.) I know that we rely on code review for a lot of security assurance questions, but it seems to me that allowing /any origin/ opens us up to attacks needlessly.

packaged apps and origins

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Adida
Hi folks, I want to raise what I believe is a relatively urgent issue with packaged apps and web origins: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=852720 Currently, packaged apps run in an origin that is newly minted for each device installation, effectively a GUID that differs from d

New Module Proposal: Identity Attached Services

2013-01-28 Thread Ben Adida
(cc dev-platform and governance, followup on dev-identity) Hi all, After initial discussions with Brendan and Mitchell, I'm proposing a new module, Identity Attached Services. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Other#IdentityAttachedServices This module covers server-side code and some clien