From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-03-31T06:39:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Digital signing of Ruby scripts

On Mar 29, 2006, at 5:21 PM, John Lam wrote:

> A primary scenario for my RubyCLR bridge is to enable folks to  
> build rich
> client applications on top of the .NET libraries. One potential  
> blocking
> issue is dealing with users tampering with .rb scripts on the  
> client. I was
> wondering if folks have spent some time thinking about how to  
> package up
> Ruby applications and digitally signing them.
>
> The Monad shell team (the next generation Windows shell which uses  
> an object
> piping metaphor as opposed to the more traditional text piping  
> metaphor in
> *nix shells) already has a code signing policy in place for Monad  
> scripts,
> as well as administrator configurable policies for script execution.
>
> Any and all thoughts around this would be greatly appreciated.

Rubygems now has the ability to let you sign your gems...

I'm not sure how it is implemented, but it might be what you're  
looking for.

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