From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:58:19 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <089118ad13e80cadbb649af3f94cfd13@proxima.alt.za> References: <089118ad13e80cadbb649af3f94cfd13@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2a9f6788-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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