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

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 15:39:10 EST


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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