[Lustre-devel] security: rpc message vs bulk data

[Peter Braam <Peter.Braam@Sun.COM>]

On 8/8/08 8:25 AM, "James Hughes" <James.Hughes@Sun.COM> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:48 -0600, Peter Braam wrote:
>>  Of course the CMU research about NASD concluded the same 10-15 years ago -
>>  you need a different protocol here, calling it ad-hoc is not so positive,
>>  calling it the NASD protocol sounds rather nice.
> 
> I am not following the thread here.
> 
> The existing implementation leverages off of kerberos in the client machine
> and does not leverage the NASD style ticket granting with versioning that the
> CMU papers advocated. Going to the NASD protocol is OK, but that means either
> abandoning Kerberos or adding Kerberos ticket honoring to the NASD versioned
> ticketing. This is doable, but not trivial.
> 
Not true.  There are capabilities generated by the MDS, with something
similar to versioning.  GSS between clients and OSS nodes is merely used to
send the capabilities encrypted.
> 
> 
> Can you send pointers to the relevant NASD security papers so that we can have
> a firm set of terminology to discuss this with?

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/  - click on NASD.


Peter
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