From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
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 20:06:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <427FA6AF.4090803@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505091940.22260.ks@linnovative.dk>
Kristian Sørensen wrote:
> On Monday 09 May 2005 17:00, James Morris wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 9 May 2005, Kristian Sørensen wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone here know of work being done in order to implement secure IPC
>>>for Linux?
>>
>>What do you mean by secure IPC?
>
> As I understand it, presently the memory for the message queue is shared based
> on user and group ownership of the process. 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?"
>
>
I think the gnumach (sorry for the typo in my last e-mail) concept, fixes
the sending and receiving permission problem. See the gnumach
documentation and source code.
Matthias-Christian Ott
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-09 18:06 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
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 [this message]
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