From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:16:10 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9grid In-Reply-To: <5c6e493472c2a8aa4552a19e84a88a7a@quintile.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <5c6e493472c2a8aa4552a19e84a88a7a@quintile.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c7f8688-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Am I the only one who is horrorfied at the lack of security > implied by the two recent cross domain authentication proposals? > I applaud any well written code for plan9 but I don't feel either > are ready for production. It depends on whether security is actually your goal. The current goal for the 9grid appears to be to provide access in a manner slightly more secure than not requiring passwords at all, and I believe that that has been=20 accomplished. Russ