Re: What I am missing

Yes Boris - I know. As long as it doesn't have advantages for the user
or the developer - why bother with it? If signed code would allow
special features - like true fullscreen or direct file access  - it
would make sense. Signed code would make script much more resistant to
manipulation and therefore would help in environments where trust and/or
security is important.

We use script for much, much more than we did just a year or so ago.

Michaela



On 11/19/2014 04:40 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 11/18/14, 10:26 PM, Michaela Merz wrote:
>> First: We need signed script code.
>
> For what it's worth, Gecko supported this for a while.  See
> <http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html>.
>  In practice, people didn't really use it, and it made the security
> model a _lot_ more complicated and hard to reason about, so the
> feature was dropped.
>
> It would be good to understand how proposals along these lines differ
> from what's already been tried and failed.
>
> -Boris
>

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