Hi all, About 2 years ago, it was asked “when will we be able to use LIPKEY on NFS4 on Linux?”. Ref. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/35560. There Trond replied as below: “ We're likely to drop the requirement that SPKM3/LIPKEY be a mandatory security mechanism for NFSv4 in the revised RFC3530 (a.k.a. RFC3530bis) that is being drafted. The reason is that the SPKM3 mechanism (on which LIPKEY relies) appears to contain inherent security flaws that are difficult to fix. The IETF security group have therefore pretty much killed it as an option. Other alternatives to SPKM3 are being discussed, but I'm not aware of anything that replaces LIPKEY. “ I’m wondering today what’s the status of SPKM3/LIPKEY support for NFS4 on Linux. Does anyone know that? Is SPKM3/LIPKEY dropped from NFS4 or available now with the inherent security flaws being fixed? Thank you very much for your update. Regards, Kai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
