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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:58:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dba1307f20986d40208dcb9b29d18dd0@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <089118ad13e80cadbb649af3f94cfd13@proxima.alt.za>

> Factotum (Russ may correct me) is modelled on SSH's agent.  The SASL
> type functionality resides in the servers that use factotum, so I'd
> say the differences are quite significant.
>
> There is a paper on Plan 9 security that makes very interesting
> reading.

do you have a reference for this claim?

factotum both caches keys and certs (as does ssh-agent), as well as
functions as a delegation agent (as i understand sasl does -- haven't used it).
so it's basically just the union of roles.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-17  5:03 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-17  5:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-11-17  6:29 ` lucio
2014-11-17 13:58   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-11-17 14:14     ` lucio
2014-11-18  8:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-11-29 19:46   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-29 19:46     ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-29 21:20       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-11-29 21:23         ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01  6:28           ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-01  7:00             ` lucio
2014-12-01 10:38               ` tlaronde
2014-12-01 10:45                 ` lucio
2014-12-02  4:00                 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02  4:08                   ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:40                     ` plannine
2014-12-02 16:33                       ` Wes Kussmaul
2014-12-02 20:32                       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02 22:20                       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02  9:50                   ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 22:15                     ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-01 12:14             ` Stuart Morrow
2014-12-02 20:32     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-01-01 14:55     ` Teodoro Santoni

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