[partly OT?] Amazon S3, EC2, cyborgs

[Andre Garzia]

We use OpenSSL for the crypto-thing routines right? I think OpenSSL  
has SHA1 support in it so it would be a matter of exposing it just  
like LibXML2 has support for XSLT but RunRev team has not exposed it  
to upper levels.

Andre

On Aug 28, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> IIRC the problem with rev and S3 is that the Amazon S3 group has only
>> implemented SHA1 authentication and there's no rev support for that.
>
> I'll put a vote on a SHA feature enhancement.  For a little while,  
> at least; I use shell() for now, so it is not crucial for me.  I  
> mentioned the hole in the Rev cryptographic capability in my dense  
> & cryptic talk in RevCon05.
>
> A workaround might be to use Interachy controlled by appleTalk to  
> do S3.
>
> I haven't looked at S3 closely, so I am not familiar with what it  
> needs.  We have SOAP now, and I suppose one could throw together a  
> specialized SOAP or REST for S3.
>
> I'd like to have something that kept going even when Seattle falls  
> into the sound.  Some distribution would be nice.  The Internet  
> went down in the NW for a bit, according to a report on the AWS  
> forum, and folks couldn't get their S3 data, even though AWS was up.
>
> On the other hand, the license terms "legal" and "as required by  
> law" are vague and do not specify the location of the data or  
> governing body.  I'd hate to have my data stored in a data center  
> in Ugabuga (or Transylvania) and find my data given to the chief  
> (or Natasha & Boris).  It is no fun to carefully abide by the law  
> (in addition to doing right) and then discover it was the wrong law.
>
> The queues look cool, too, and seem to be mature.
>
> Dar Scott
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