From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Using Inferno factotum with Plan 9
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4d8fa40810160708i5ae60e6dk49291495d82f2eb5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e11d1aade81eb1b79b3b2b66d696db9b@vitanuova.com>
That's something I was always wondering about. I'm starting to understand.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:34 PM, C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> wrote:
>>Any chance of Plan 9's factotum learning how to speak infauth?
>
> that was done as a GSoC project, but i then made the mistake
> of trying to include it as part of a much larger change on
> the Inferno side. it wasn't a silly mistake: factotum doesn't
> support the key structure required for public keys and signatures,
> so something more was needed. i also wanted to extend Inferno's
> authentication scheme. that in turn is requiring a big (ie, visible)
> change in a few old Inferno modules and commands.
>
> still, for your purposes the temporary hack of stashing the
> existing certificate data in hex would be fine.
> i'll send you some changes for you to try.
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 11:55 Venkatesh Srinivas
2008-10-16 13:34 ` C H Forsyth
2008-10-16 14:08 ` hiro [this message]
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