Re: GSoC'21 - View Only Mode

Hello everyone!

GSoC'21: Week 9 of working on the GRC View Only Mode:

This week I've added an expression overview to the trust prompt. It displays which expressions might be evaluated, which should help the user decide whether to trust the flow graph or not. Then I briefly describe what's coming in the remaining couple of weeks of GSoC.

Read about it on the blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

/Oscar

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 6:53 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

GSoC'21: Week 8 of working on the GRC View Only Mode:

This week I've added the ability to trust entire directories and done some work behind the scenes.

Read about it on the blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

Best,

Oscar

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 5:54 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

GSoC'21: Week 7 of working on the GRC View Only Mode:

This week I've continued with the things I did last week: I added an "Add trusted" button to the trust manager where the user can add files to trust and I continued improving the trust prompt activation. It's coming together! Read all about it on the blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

Have a nice weekend!
/Oscar

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:37 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

GSoC'21: Week 6 of working on the GRC View Only Mode:

This week I've added persistent trust to the view only mode, with a new dialog where trusted flowgraphs are listed and where the user can stop trusting flowgraphs. Read about it on the blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

And big thanks to everyone showing interest in the project, it is very encouraging! :)

/Oscar

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 7:36 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

GSoC'21: Week 5 of working on the GRC View Only Mode:

This week I have begun working on the GUI parts, such as a prompt where the user can choose to trust the flowgraph and a toggle where the user can disable the View Only Mode altogether if they desire. Additionally, I write about the PR I opened, which contains the core parts of the mode.

https://oscekh.github.io/

Happy reading!

/Oscar Ekholm

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 6:44 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Another Friday => Another GSoC blog update about my work on the GRC View Only Mode! This time I've made a test asserting that untrusted code isn't executed as well as refined the code for the upcoming PR. There will be a PR this weekend containing the core parts and eventually another PR containing GUI stuff. Read more about it on the blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

Best regards,

Oscar Ekholm

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 7:37 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone!

I've now published my third blog update on the GSoC - GRC View Only Mode. This week I've continued with disabling evaluation, mainly on block and flowgraph level this time. You can read more about it on the blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

Best regards,

Oscar Ekholm

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 5:33 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

A new Friday means a new GSoC - View Only Mode blog update! This time it focuses on using the stored parameter values (from last week) instead of evaluating the expressions. Read more about it on my blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

Best regards,

Oscar Ekholm

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 5:24 PM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone!

I have now published the first blog post for my GSoC work on the GRC View-Only Mode. This week I have mainly worked at saving evaluated values of parameters in the grc-file. You can read about it here:

https://oscekh.github.io/

I will be posting an update on the blog each Friday, with a corresponding announcement on this list.

Best regards,

Oscar Ekholm

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:19 AM Oscar Ekholm <oscekh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I've been accepted to work with GnuRadio for this year's Google Summer of Code. I will be working on implementing a GRC View-Only Mode, which is a security feature disabling execution of block parameters in untrusted flowgraphs.

I will be posting weekly progress updates on my blog:

https://oscekh.github.io/

If you are interested in reading more about the View-Only mode it is described further in my project proposal:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dL6PziJSopcY3O7gJ6CXiedTSdbhrHVFhR-UJRTmsng/edit?usp=sharing

Please reach out if you have any questions, advice or thoughts you want to share.

Best regards,

Oscar Ekholm