[OpenAFS] AES Support ?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:07:30 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, John Hascall wrote:

>   So, I'm not sure I'm following exactly, but I think you are
>   suggesting this as a way to test before then (which would
>   be a good thing).  You seem to imply that a clients can
>   somehow be manually instructed to use an arbitrary keyname
>   (say afs-k5-test) -- is this correct?   Then you could create

Well, you have source, so yes, they always *can*.

But I think Marcus was using some (afsx?) principal for testing already, 
so he may have a switch.

>   this key that other clients would not know about, and then
>   I am assuming you could also configure a test server in your
>   cell with this key name too?

Until this point servers didn't even care about key names, but, everything 
is doable. It may need some interface glue, but everything is doable.