* [9fans] security [was Plan 9 versus CORBA?]
@ 2001-09-25 13:30 Eric Grosse
2001-09-26 15:41 ` Dan Cross
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From: Eric Grosse @ 2001-09-25 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:27:27 -0400 (EDT)
> ...
> A lot of people who are putting in, eg, end-to-end
> crypto are doing so ``temporarily'' until the problems with the
> wireless LAN are ``fixed.''
> What's really needed is a holistic approach, ...
> But, good luck selling that one. :-(
But Plan 9 is deliberately a research system, where we have a chance
to do it right and live in the system we build.
We're working to evolve Plan 9 so all services and protocols are
sturdy enough to withstand life outside firewalls. We don't want to
depend on WEP but on end-to-end authentication and encryption where
needed.
Besides the upgrades in explicit security mechanisms for Plan 9,
we still find and fix buffer overflows occasionally. But there
are only a few people to work on this at Bell Labs, so I appeal to
the open source community to apply eyeballs and insight.
Eric
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* Re: [9fans] security [was Plan 9 versus CORBA?]
2001-09-25 13:30 [9fans] security [was Plan 9 versus CORBA?] Eric Grosse
@ 2001-09-26 15:41 ` Dan Cross
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From: Dan Cross @ 2001-09-26 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
In article <20010925133048.C0B6919A0F@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>> From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:27:27 -0400 (EDT)
>> ...
>> A lot of people who are putting in, eg, end-to-end
>> crypto are doing so ``temporarily'' until the problems with the
>> wireless LAN are ``fixed.''
>> What's really needed is a holistic approach, ...
>> But, good luck selling that one. :-(
>
>But Plan 9 is deliberately a research system, where we have a chance
>to do it right and live in the system we build.
Yes, but I wasn't really refering to Plan 9 in the original message.
It was more generally about 802.11 installations. Sorry, it was off-
topic and not particularly clear.
>We're working to evolve Plan 9 so all services and protocols are
>sturdy enough to withstand life outside firewalls. We don't want to
>depend on WEP but on end-to-end authentication and encryption where
>needed.
Ooo... That's great.
>Besides the upgrades in explicit security mechanisms for Plan 9,
>we still find and fix buffer overflows occasionally. But there
>are only a few people to work on this at Bell Labs, so I appeal to
>the open source community to apply eyeballs and insight.
I don't think that the buffer overrun problem is really going to
be fixed until security critical software is written in a `safe'
language that's immune to that sort of thing. (Sorry, Dennis!)
But, at anyrate, I'm happy to peek at the code whenever I get a
chance. If nothing else, I've found it a good cure for co-worker-
induced stomach aches. :-)
- Dan C.
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