Re: [Python-Dev] Pickle security and remote logging

2010-06-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
Guido van Rossum python.org> writes: > As for protocol buffers, assuming its absence (so far from the > stdlib is the only objection, how hard would it be to make the logging > package "prepared" so that if one *did* have protocol buffers > installed, it would be a one-line config setting to use

Re: [Python-Dev] Pickle security and remote logging

2010-06-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: >> >> I've updated the documentation of SocketHandler.makePickle to mention >> security >> concerns, and that the method can be overridden to use a more secure >> implementation (e.g.

Re: [Python-Dev] Pickle security and remote logging

2010-06-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > I've updated the documentation of SocketHandler.makePickle to mention security > concerns, and that the method can be overridden to use a more secure > implementation (e.g. HMAC-signed pickles). Thanks. But I doubt HMAC complication helps to

Re: [Python-Dev] Pickle security and remote logging

2010-06-29 Thread Vinay Sajip
anatoly techtonik gmail.com> writes: > insecure. SocketHandler and DatagramHandler docs should at least > contain a warning about danger of exposing unpickling interfaces to > insecure networks. I've updated the documentation of SocketHandler.makePickle to mention security concerns, and that the