On 5 September 2010 08:24, Ted Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey gang (this is primarily a way to get a message to snusnu),
> I am poking around w/ dm-rails and one thing that immediately jumped out at
> me was the invocation that http://github.com/datamapper/dm-rails recommends
> is just ripe for a man in the middle attack.  Additionally invocation that
> requires hitting the web means that you can't start new projects when you
> don't have a net connection.
> wycats suggested that there should be a railties generator that we
> distribute with the dm-rails gem (like the ones used in beard for instance
> http://github.com/carlhuda/beard/tree/master/lib/generators/ ).  And while
> that doesn't fix the MitM attack vector (which did spawn an interesting
> conversation on twitter regarding rubygems' security model), it will reduce
> the opportunity for attack and also make it runnable locally.
> So if ppl think that's the way to go (i do), or have objections, please say
> so!
> -Ted


I agree, having it as a gem, while it's potentially slower moving for
updates, seems like a more sensible idea, both from a security PoV and
also the convenience of being able to do things offline.

Regards
Jon

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