From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 22 05:04:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECA016A41C for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 05:04:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0581C43D1D for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 05:04:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGV008M5KRFFX80@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 23:04:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGV00EYTKRF2780@pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 23:04:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IGV00G4WKRFTL@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 23:04:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:04:19 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <1116738170.867.28.camel@dirk.no.domain> To: Sam Lawrance Message-id: <429012D3.6070803@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 References: <428FC00B.3080909@freebsd.org> <428FD710.4060200@freebsd.org> <9e8314b53980a379445cc8c07086901d@xcllnt.net> <428FE788.8020408@freebsd.org> <6451b639f2e0ddacb18f62c571dfeedb@xcllnt.net> <42900C01.10904@freebsd.org> <1116738170.867.28.camel@dirk.no.domain> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scheduler fixes for hyperthreading X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 05:04:59 -0000 Sam Lawrance wrote: > I'm just curious here... would the mac_seeotheruids policy help in > obscuring the value of any information collected by a spy process? Yes. It would mean that the spy could steal an SSL certificate, but not know whose SSL certificate it was. :-) Colin Percival