[OpenAFS] Supported enctypes in OpenAFS 1.4.x

Marcus Watts mdw@umich.edu
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:44:49 -0400


Jeffrey Altman writes:
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> 
> rxk5 does not do everything that we wanted rxgk to do but they are
> much further along in the development process than rxgk is at the moment
> and rxk5 provides 90% of what is desired.

rxk5 can also be the basis for doing rxgk -- the basic packet
encryption is very close to what rxgk would have to do anyways.  I
believe the plan is to share that logic with rxgk.  The main thing rxgk
changes is how the initial token generation, challenge, & response
logic work.  Those are actually technically simple; the real complexity
in gssapi is 2 things: sorting out various extensions to gssapi that
rxgk needs that may not have made their way through the standardization
process yet, and figuring out how to wedge pieces of gssapi into various
bits of openafs especially the kernel.  The latter has actually been
done already in linux for NFSv4, but the code only does des.
I can't really blame the folks who did that -- des3 and aes
hadn't yet been standardized for gssapi when that work was done.

I hope to see work go forward for rxgk, or if not exactly rxgk, there
are certainly all those "other things" we don't do that we should find
ways to do.  rxk5 is the useful part of rxgk that we can deliver this year.
rxgk, rxtcp, and departmental fileservers, these are all things we should
continue to work on, each is going to require significant extra work,
and I hope are improvements people here can look forward to seeing happen.

				-Marcus