From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>,
steved@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Kill SPKM3 auth method
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:54:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309215446.GA22068@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5A76CD.9080809@fifthhorseman.net>
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 04:31:57PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 02:49 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >This authentication method is obsolete and it is time it dies for good.
>
> Can i ask what it has been obsoleted by?
I think pku2u? Someone who's following that effort will have to comment
on how far along it is.
> Neither https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2025 [SPKM] nor
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2847 [LIPKEY] seem to suggest an
> inheritor, and kerberos5 does not provide direct public-key-based
> authentication (it's still reliant on an active and trusted
> third-party).
>
> So it seems like SPKM and LIPKEY offer a cryptographic model that is
> otherwise unavailable for authentication between NFS endpoints.
Understood that people would like such a thing, but alas spkm3 and
lipkey never quite managed to provide it.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-09 19:49 [PATCH 0/7] Kill SPKM3 auth method Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/7] Kill SPKM3: Remove spkm3 references from svcgssd Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 2/7] Kill SPKM3: Remove spkm3 support from gssd Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 3/7] Kill SPKM3: remove spkm3 from common gssd code Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 4/7] Kill SPKM3: Remove spkm3 support from nfs.mount Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 5/7] Kill SPKM3: Remove spkm3 support from exports Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 6/7] Kill SPKM3: Stop checking for spkm3.h in configure Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 7/7] Kill SPKM3: Remove mentions of SPKM3 from README Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 20:49 ` [PATCH 0/1] Kill SPKM3 auth method, addendum Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 20:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] Kill SPKM3: Remove also the dependent lipkey mechanism Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/7] Kill SPKM3 auth method Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-03-09 21:54 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2012-03-11 3:32 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-03-12 19:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-12 20:35 ` Steve Dickson
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2012-03-09 19:34 Simo Sorce
2012-03-09 20:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
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