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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Blair Strang <bls@asterisk.co.nz>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: In-kernel Authentication Tokens (PAGs)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 03:03:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087282990.13680.13.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87smcxqqa2.fsf@asterisk.co.nz>

På ty , 15/06/2004 klokka 02:38, skreiv Blair Strang:

> Surely the only logical reason to tag a process with extra security
> information /in the kernel/ is because that information is going to be
> used /by the kernel/.  I can't think of a good reason to put a
> generalised keystore in the kernel.

Here are three good reasons.

 - You want the key lifetime to be the same as your process lifetime
 - You want the key to be readable ONLY by that one process.
 - The kernel wants to supports multiple security realms and mechanisms.
Not everybody is happy with just kerberosV credentials, and we already
have beta code for the SPKM mechanism in RPCSEC_GSS.


As for the AFS PAG idea: it's already been shot down. See the
linux-fsdevel thread I referred to earlier.

Cheers,
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-12  2:37 Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12  3:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-12  4:57   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12  5:34     ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-12 12:51       ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12 15:37         ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-12 17:15           ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12  3:15 ` Chris Wright
2004-06-12  4:48   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12 20:53     ` Chris Wright
2004-06-12 21:15       ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12 21:44         ` Chris Wright
2004-06-12 21:58           ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12 22:51             ` Chris Wright
2004-06-12 23:40               ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12 22:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-12 23:33   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-12 23:58     ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-13  0:23       ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-15  6:38         ` Blair Strang
2004-06-15  7:03           ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2004-06-15  9:36           ` David Howells
2004-06-15 19:00             ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-15 22:07               ` Chris Wright
2004-06-15 23:48                 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-16  0:01                   ` Chris Wright
2004-06-16  0:06                     ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-15 22:29             ` Chris Wright
2004-06-15 23:59             ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-16 14:22             ` David Howells
2004-06-16 14:37             ` David Howells
2004-06-16 14:49             ` David Howells
2004-06-17  1:13               ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 11:48               ` David Howells
2004-06-17 19:06                 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-23 12:29                 ` David Howells
2004-06-23 21:03                   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-29 17:07                   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-07 18:54                     ` John Bucy
2004-07-08  1:29                       ` Kyle Moffett

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