From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:25 +0200 From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081016115517.GA26994@unknown> Subject: Re: [9fans] Using Inferno factotum with Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1fb9c3b8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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. > >