Re: [RFC] i_generation numbers.
Jim Nance (jnance@nortelnetworks.com)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:16:56 -0400
----- Forwarded message from "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> -----
> that much as far as secuurity goes. Sure, it protects against file
> handle guessing attacks, but that's only one of a number of ways which
> justify the old saw about NFS == "No File Security".
>
> NFS does have some real cryptographically based security options now,
> but those will either have to be implemented and distributed outside the
> United States (i.e., outside the "crypto iron curtain") or we're going
It would be sort of interesting to see how many kernel bugs we could uncover
by running NFS over TCP forwarded through ssh :-)
Jim
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