19 Jan 2023
Mathieu Hofman briefly updates us on the latest position from him and Mark regarding the acceptability of async disposal and we conclude our conversation with Justin Ridgewell regarding AsyncContext.
- 5 participants
- 41 minutes
17 Jan 2023
Discussion at friam led by Mark Miller.
This discussion is motivated by the proposal to add so-called "AsyncContext" to JavaScript. The question is how does this affect the safety of Hardened JS, the use of JavaScript as an object-capability language.
The discussion makes use of the examples at https://github.com/endojs/endo/pull/1424 . This PR will continue to evolve as our understanding does.
friam is a group of object-capability experts who have been meeting continually since the mid 1990s. This discussion examined the larger question of the safety of these mechanisms if added to ocap languages in general.
This discussion is motivated by the proposal to add so-called "AsyncContext" to JavaScript. The question is how does this affect the safety of Hardened JS, the use of JavaScript as an object-capability language.
The discussion makes use of the examples at https://github.com/endojs/endo/pull/1424 . This PR will continue to evolve as our understanding does.
friam is a group of object-capability experts who have been meeting continually since the mid 1990s. This discussion examined the larger question of the safety of these mechanisms if added to ocap languages in general.
- 10 participants
- 1:55 hours
11 Jan 2023
Mark S. Miller (MarkM) did another deep dive into his investigation of the security properties of AsyncContext and the champion of that proposal, Justin Ridgewell of Vercel, was able to join us. There will be a Part III.
- 4 participants
- 1:01 hours
4 Jan 2023
Mark Miller lays out the groundwork for an explanation of his investigation into the security of AsyncContext.
- 6 participants
- 53 minutes
