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Re: [equinox-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Security "Work Area" in Equinox/Eclipse


I think some of that code needs to be made available to the update manager (API or duplicated), for feature jar files to be processed in the same manner.

-Dorian



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Signing a jar file doesn't mean that additional files can be added.
Actually it is perfectly valid since you can have partially signed Jar
files. The new files would just have no signature or possibly a
different signature. It also doesn't stop files from being removed. It
only stops files from getting modified.

Right now work is going on in OSGi to require that bundles be fully
signed. What this means is that files not signed by the same signer as
the manifest will be ignored. Signatures that do not sign the manifest
will also be ignored. I think this would address the problems you are
running into.

ben

Dorian Birsan wrote:

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> The update manager needs better support for dealing with signed
> features and plugins. It looks like signing a jar does not stop one
> from adding other unsigned files to the jar.
> See bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=83349. As the
> update team is interested in your work, do you have any bugs that we
> could cc: to for tracking the security work effort?
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> -Dorian
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> Please see the update overviews in the Security work area of Equinox.  The
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