[OpenAFS-devel] Announce: TFS fork of OpenAFS for ipv6 and rxgk implementation testing

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:12:40 -0400


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> I have something now that compiles, both without rxk5, and with:
>
> ./configure --enable-rxk5 --with-krb5-conf=/usr/bin/krb5-config
>
> What doesn't work is it's not been tested at all, and the kernel
> module for linux does not compile. Part of the problem with the
> kernel module is src/external/heimdal/hcrypt/evp.c has a whole
> bunch of free/malloc/calloc stuff that is going to cause issues
> when used in the kernel.
>
> So one general question: Is there any code that I can pull in for
> rxgk (or look at) and see how this issue is resolved.
>
> Another issue: Linux has a nice set of in-kernel crypto functions,
> why can't we use those instead of re-inventing the wheel?

write a GPL kernel module and you can use whatever you want.

or use David Howells' (GPL) kAFS module, and ...


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Derrick