From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: "Kristian Sørensen" <ks@linnovative.dk>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Any work in implementing Secure IPC for Linux?
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:54:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <427FA3D4.1080706@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505091940.22260.ks@linnovative.dk>
Kristian Sørensen wrote:
> By "secure IPC" is meaning a
> security mechanism that provides a more fine granularity of specifying who
> are allowed to send (or receive) messages... and maby also a way to resolve
> the question of "Can I trust the message I received?"
How about unix sockets?
--you can have sockets in the filesystem namespace with regular file
permissions to control who is allowed to send messages to particular
addresses
--you can authenticate who is sending the message using SCM_CREDENTIALS
--nobody else can eavesdrop on the messages
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-09 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-09 9:11 Any work in implementing Secure IPC for Linux? Kristian Sørensen
2005-05-09 12:15 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-09 15:00 ` James Morris
2005-05-09 17:40 ` Kristian Sørensen
2005-05-09 17:53 ` Chris Wright
2005-05-09 17:54 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-05-09 18:44 ` Kristian Sørensen
2005-05-09 19:01 ` Chris Wright
2005-05-09 19:09 ` James Morris
2005-05-09 18:06 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
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