Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatypes
Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> Fri, 10 December 2010 18:32 UTC
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatypes
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"Krishna Sankar (ksankar)" <ksankar@cisco.com> writes: > Tom, > The security considerations in RFC 4627 pertains to JavaScript > and security pertaining to scripting languages. We are not using > JavaScript in CDMI and so that section is not relevant here. > Cheers > <k/> Section 3.1 of your document says that the CDMI interface represents CDMI objects in JSON format. If some element of some CDMI implementation is written (perhaps ill-advisedly) in JavaScript and chooses to use eval() to parse the JSON encoding, then I believe the Security Considerations of RFC 4627 would apply.
- [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatypes Tom Yu
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatyp… Krishna Sankar (ksankar)
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatyp… Tom Yu
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatyp… Krishna Sankar (ksankar)