Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] block: Introduce "json-file:" protocol

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:01:16PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> This would be a safer channel when we want to provide block options that
> contain sensitive information, such as fields for authentication.

If passing of security sensitive data is the motivation for this,
then I don't think we want it really. This approach merely avoids
the config being visible in the process listing, which is really just
one problem. When people file bugs they are going to need to provide
the block device config, and that still going to contain sensitive
info and thus leak. Similarly apps generating block config like libvirt
are still going to be logging the block config they generate, which is
again going to leak secrets. Finally, we need the ability to pass
security sensitive data to QEMU in many other areas besides block devices
so need a more general mechanism

I've proposed a way to provide secrets to QEMU in a way that is
usable across all QEMU backends, that I think is a much better
approach because it totally decouples the sensitive data from
the rest of the config data, rather than having it inline

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg04365.html

Regards,
Daniel
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