From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: authentication / encryption key retention
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:07:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12962.1061914023@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061911851.20946.47.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>
> On Maw, 2003-08-26 at 11:12, David Howells wrote:
> > If your subset is but a single pre-existing key (where this includes a
> > keyring as a specialisation of a key), then yes; but if the filesystem is
> > permitted to select multiple keys from different sources, then no.
> >
> > I think for the moment, however, we can assume there will be a single key.
>
> How is the key choice different to say selinux roles ?
I'm not sure. After a quick overview of SE Linux, it doesn't seem that it
would be able to support this.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-26 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-22 15:25 authentication / encryption key retention David Howells
2003-08-22 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-22 17:39 ` David Howells
2003-08-22 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-26 10:12 ` David Howells
2003-08-26 15:30 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-26 16:07 ` David Howells [this message]
2003-08-26 16:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-26 16:26 ` Stephen Smalley
2003-08-27 15:31 ` [PATCH/RFC] " David Howells
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