[OpenAFS-devel] rxgk updates

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

>
> I've also made an RXGK "todo" page on the wiki 
> (http://wiki.openafs.org/RXGKToDo/) with a list of the known outstanding 
> tasks.  I'm sure there are more tasks that have yet to be documented; as we 
> come across them, please try to keep the list updated.  If any of the items 
> are unclear, we can of course discuss them on this list or the jabber room or 
> elsewhere.  When I first started working on rxgk, I think I said something 
> about it probably being best to have just one person working on the core 
> implementation, and more hands would be handy later on.  We're probably past 
> that point, and more help is definitely useful at this point.

I should update on what I'm working on.  I picked up the item to move rx 
epoch/cid generation into the core rx code, which is sitting in gerrit as 
10840-10843.  Looking through my gerrit changes, it would be nice to get 
10526 in as well, to help indicate which places in the tree have code that 
conditionalizes on the rx security class.

I've also picked up the items on the wiki page's list to write a getkey 
routine using the cell-wide rxgk key from KeyFileExt, and make the afsconf 
changes to allow rxgk server security objects, though at the moment I'm 
only looking at the case using the cell-wide key, with the goal of using 
rxgk for the ubik synchronization connections (another item on the list).

I also asked Andrew if he wanted to write up some notes on the vldb 
format, since he had done some research there while investigating what 
needed to be done for IPv6 support.  I or someone else could take those 
notes and flesh them out into a detailed description akin to the prdb.txt 
document that we have in the tree.

-Ben