Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:02:28 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "Joachim [Str_mbergson]" <watchman@ludd.luth.se>, Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FreeBSD security work? Audit, regression and crypto swap? Message-ID: <200007180832.SAA19199@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <44362.963907462@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> from Sheldon Hearn at "Jul 18, 2000 10:04:22 am"
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:49:39 +0200, Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= wro > te: > > Greg Lewis wrote: > > > I think the recent import of TCFS <http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/>; into OpenBSD > > > is also fairly interesting. > > > > Pretty kewl! Is anybody looking at trying it out for FreeBSD? > > Is it really cool? I've always thought that crypted swap is a waste of > time, given the fact that access to the swap device implies far more > serious problems already. Now that we have a reference to Niels' paper, > though, we can see what his motivation for developing this was. Hmmm, I think you've gotten off the track a bit :). While Joachim's initial comment was about encrypted swap, I was pointing out that TCFS was also an interesting feature that had recently been added to OpenBSD. Its a crytographic replacement for NFS. There are patches for both OpenBSD and NetBSD at the TCFS web site but not FreeBSD unfortunately. > We should definitely not even consider this until we're sure it's > useful. I'd hate to introduce source just for the purposes of keeping > our bullet list as long as OpenBSD's. :-) This applies equally as well to TCFS :). I think its worth investigating, and plan to do so if I get time at one point :). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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