From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] encryption code changes
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:43:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498CCB11.1090005@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233954540-4754-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series for qemu contain multiple changes on the way encryption
> and authentication code is handled.
>
> The first patch is a behaviour change to avoid silent security holes on
> the VNC server caused by user configuration errors.
>
> Patches 2 and 3 are bugfixes to some of the multiple problems
> I had with monitor_readline(), when testing the qcow encryption
> support. monitor_readline() is still not completely functional, but
> at least it allows the qcow password to be read when an qcow encrypted
> image is specified on the command-line, now.
>
> The remaining patches may be more controversial. The first half makes the
> use of aes.c and d3des.c optional at compile time. The rest remove aes.c
> and d3des.c from the source tree and replace them with calls to libgcrypt.
>
What's the availability of libgcrypt? Are there Windows versions
readily available? That would be my biggest concern here.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-06 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 21:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] encryption code changes Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9] vnc: abort on unknown options Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/9] drive_init: Don't try to read passwords before monitor setup Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/9] monitor_readline: poll pending bottom halves before readline_start() Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/9] qcow: define QCOW_CRYPT_MAX Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/9] qcow: make encryption support optional Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] vnc: make DES-challenge authentication (aka "VNC auth") optional Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/9] configure: add check for libgcrypt Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] qcow: use libgcrypt AES implementation Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] vnc: use libgcrypt for DES-challenge authentication Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-06 21:57 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] encryption code changes Jan Kiszka
2009-02-06 23:43 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-02-07 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2009-02-09 20:57 ` Eduardo Habkost
2009-02-07 11:00 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-02-14 22:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-18 23:57 ` Eduardo Habkost
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