Re: Any work in implementing Secure IPC for Linux?
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Mon May 09 2005 - 12:58:07 EST
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
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