Re: on-the-wire encryption, addrs, and cephx

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Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sage Weil" <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 8:57:16 AM
> Subject: on-the-wire encryption, addrs, and cephx
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We had a call last night (Marcus, Haomai, Yehuda, our GSoC student Zhao,
> and me) to discuss on-the-wire encryption.  

<snip>

> 
> (We talked about whether just jumping into a Kerberos world wholesale
> makes sense or would help here, and decided that although we could do what
> cephx does with kerberos, doing so doesn't change any of the protocol
> pieces--and in fact krb5 would effectivel slot in as an alternative,
> pluggable auth mode next to cephx.  As we go through this process we
> should verify that a native kerberos approach fits in properly.)

<snip>

> 
> Comments, questions welcome!


Seems like this is a great start.  I'm used to systems that emphasize Kerberos, and I'm glad we're revisiting where it covers or misses our requirements.

Matt

> 
> sage
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