Just for fun - PickleRPC

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Fri Feb 28 12:25:12 EST 2003


"Michael Ströder" <michael at stroeder.com> wrote in message
news:qbf4j-q57.ln1 at nb2.stroeder.com...
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >     >> I wound up with an RPC protocol running over raw sockets which
uses
> >     >> pickle as the serialization format.
> >
> >     Michael> How do you deal with security?
> >
> > I don't. ;-) Another reason the subject says "Just for fun".
>
> Well, you and me know to be careful when reading "Just for fun". But
usually
> people pick up this kind of solutions very quickly without thinking about
> security issues. Therefore such announcements SHOULD contain a security
note.
>

So should the RFCs, but most of them just say "This memo does not address
security issues".

regards
--
Steve Holden                                  http://www.holdenweb.com/
Python Web Programming                 http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/
Register for PyCon now!            http://www.python.org/pycon/reg.html







More information about the Python-list mailing list