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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] AFS: Add security support
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:38:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070411193844.GC3704@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070411191037.15499.67852.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:10:37PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Add security support to the AFS filesystem.  Kerberos IV tickets are
> added as RxRPC keys are added to the session keyring with the klog
> program.  open() and other VFS operations then find this ticket with
> request_key() and either use it immediately (eg: mkdir, unlink) or
> attach it to a file descriptor (open).

Just curious--when is the actual crypto done?  There doesn't seem to be
any in this patch.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-11 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-11 19:09 [PATCH 0/8] AFS: Add security support and fix bugs David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/8] AF_RXRPC: Use own workqueues David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/8] AF_RXRPC: Lower dead call timeout and fix available call counting on connections David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 3/8] AFS: Fix callback aggregator work item deadlock David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] AFS: Correctly alter relocation state after update and show state in /proc David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 5/8] AFS: Handle multiple mounts of an AFS superblock correctly David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 6/8] AFS: AF_RXRPC key changes David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 7/8] AFS: Permit key to be cached in nameidata David Howells
2007-04-11 19:10 ` [PATCH 8/8] AFS: Add security support David Howells
2007-04-11 19:38   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-04-11 20:10     ` David Howells
2007-04-11 20:17       ` J. Bruce Fields

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