Kristian Sørensen wrote:
By "secure IPC" is meaning a
security mechanism that provides a more fine granularity of specifying who
are allowed to send (or receive) messages... and maby also a way to resolve
the question of "Can I trust the message I received?"
How about unix sockets?
--you can have sockets in the filesystem namespace with regular file
permissions to control who is allowed to send messages to particular
addresses
--you can authenticate who is sending the message using SCM_CREDENTIALS
--nobody else can eavesdrop on the messages
Chris
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
