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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, agospoda@redhat.com,
	nhorman@redhat.com, lwoodman@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Add Network Sysrq Support
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:29:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k4cd3mwo.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110621130040.12035.62533.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> (Prarit Bhargava's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:00:40 -0400")

Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Note that the network sysrq automatically disables after the receipt of
> the ping, ie) it is single-shot mode.  If you want to use this again, you
> must complete the above four steps again.
 
Good idea, but: why not add a single key (e.g. a hash digest with 
the key hashed in) and make it reasonably secure?  
That should not be that hard and would make it a lot more useful.

It would not defend against all attacks, but probably make it
"LAN grade" at least.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21 13:00 [PATCH]: Add Network Sysrq Support Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-21 17:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 18:30   ` Neil Horman
2011-06-21 20:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-21 20:37   ` Florian Westphal
2011-06-21 20:46     ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-21 22:12   ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-21 22:05 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-21 22:26   ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-21 23:32     ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-21 22:56   ` Florian Westphal
2011-06-21 22:58     ` David Miller
2011-06-22 10:26       ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 10:35         ` David Miller
2011-06-22 10:42           ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 10:54         ` Florian Westphal
2011-06-22 12:19           ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 12:37           ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 17:39             ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 18:46               ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 20:29                 ` David Miller
2011-06-22 18:57               ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 20:27               ` David Miller
2011-06-24 14:37           ` John Haxby
2011-06-22  7:55 ` WANG Cong
2011-06-22 15:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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