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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Encryption
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:24:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080229182415.GD29683@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370802290830h4ee6883el2a640bcc64508882@mail.gmail.com>

* roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:

> these are all implemented by the kernel, so not a great example
> for you, perhaps, but a nice example of a simple, uniform interface without
> any of the usual API cruft.
>
> see for example: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/ssl

Ah, looks very interesting.
But I've still got some questions:

* why isn't the secret not represented by one (r/w) file ?
* how can I attach an local fd to an remote ssl server ?
* how can I read/write arbitary data blocks (w/o fd) ?


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      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-29 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 17:31 Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-28 17:55 ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found] ` <f1f8b32b0fae7acc3531c3decdf80fff@terzarima.net>
2008-02-29 14:40   ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-29 16:30     ` roger peppe
2008-02-29 18:24       ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]

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