[OpenAFS] packet sniffing and file content

[David R Boldt]

Derek,

was this added after the IBM/Transarc fork, or was it available
in the original code?  I have IBM/Transarc clients, and this
seems not to be an option for them.

one of the AFS support people from IBM was under the impression
that IBM might incorporate enhancements developed by OpenAFS;
do you have any sense of this?

                                          -- David Boldt
                                             <dboldt@usgs.gov>



                                                                                     
                    Derek Atkins                                                     
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                                         Subject:     Re: [OpenAFS] packet sniffing  
                    07/13/01             and file content                            
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"fs setcrypt on" on the client will turn on file encryption.  It
only uses fcrypt(), which only provides token encryption, but
it is better than cleartext.

There is work underway to improve this.

-derek

David Boldt <dboldt@usgs.gov> writes:

> What options are available to protect file contents
> from packet sniffing?  Is this a concern?
>
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