netdev - Re: [PATCH 8/8] AFS: Add security support

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Message-ID: <20070411193844.GC3704@fieldses.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:38:44 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] AFS: Add security support

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:10:37PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Add security support to the AFS filesystem.  Kerberos IV tickets are
> added as RxRPC keys are added to the session keyring with the klog
> program.  open() and other VFS operations then find this ticket with
> request_key() and either use it immediately (eg: mkdir, unlink) or
> attach it to a file descriptor (open).

Just curious--when is the actual crypto done?  There doesn't seem to be
any in this patch.

--b.
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