[ZODB-Dev] Support for graceful ZODB Class renaming

[Christian Reis]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:20:56PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But we have another idea for reducing pickle sizes.  I'm planning a
> new version of the pickle protocol that is much more efficient for
> pickling new-style classes.  Since it's a new protocol version,
> there's room for other improvements too.  One of those other
> improvements will be a global registration of "pickle extension codes"
> where certain classes can be designated by a two- or three-byte code.

I wonder if this new pickle protocol will take in account the security
issue(s) that Toby pointed out in his previous email regarding safety of
unpickling untrusted data [1]?

[1] http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2003-January/004169.html

Take care,
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Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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