RE: [eclipse-dev] Adding Security Features to Eclipse

["Trey Spiva" <Trey.Spiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would be interested in looking at it.

REASON: Just to see if I can use it in any of my projects.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff R Woldan [mailto:jeff_w2@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:12 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [eclipse-dev] Adding Security Features to Eclipse
> 
> I am a computer science student at Messiah College in Grantham, PA,
and
> as my senior honors project, I decided to add security features to
> Eclipse that could be used to protect files being edited in Eclipse
from
> unauthorized usage, such as those containing valuable intellectual
> property not intended to be shared with the public.  It is sort of
along
> the lines of Microsoft's Right Management Services, although not based
> off that in any way.  It is based on the somewhat theoretical idea of
a
> secure development environment that would protect files from access
> except by those programs that have security feature enabled.  I wanted
to
> make the Eclipse community aware of what I had done, and share my work
> with anyone who might be interested.  I have no expectation of my work
> being incorporated into the Eclipse code base, but I thought people
might
> still be interested in what I had accomplished.  If you'd like to see
the
> code and documentation I have for this project, reply to me letting me
> know and explaining why you're interested, if you don't mind.
> 
> 
> -Jeff Woldan
> 
> PS. I am aware of the irony of attempting to create this type of
> protection in an open source program. I was mostly motivated by my
desire
> to work with Eclipse, and this idea for a security project was simply
a
> suggestion I found intriguing.
> 
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