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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] https/factotum question
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:54:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2245.1140562458@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like
I want to set up a SSL web server in such a way that
only the web server itself can sign web pages.

But it looks to me as if the closest I can come at
present is for the factotum behind /srv/factotum to
contain the RSA key tagged with "owner=none", which I
think means that anybody who is "none", not just the
one web server process and its descendants, can sign
things.

I notice in httpd.c that some things are opened before
becomenone()... would it make sense to somehow latch
onto a "private" factotum at this point and then use
it after becomenone()?

Dave Eckhardt


             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-21 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21 22:54 Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2006-02-21 23:00 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-22 23:31   ` Dave Eckhardt

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