Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261455AbVEIRlL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:41:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261456AbVEIRlK (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:41:10 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:50314 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261455AbVEIRk6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:40:58 -0400 From: Kristian =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rensen?= Organization: Linnovative To: James Morris Subject: Re: Any work in implementing Secure IPC for Linux? Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:40:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505091940.22260.ks@linnovative.dk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 993 Lines: 23 On Monday 09 May 2005 17:00, James Morris wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2005, Kristian S?rensen wrote: > > Does anyone here know of work being done in order to implement secure IPC > > for Linux? > > What do you mean by secure IPC? As I understand it, presently the memory for the message queue is shared based on user and group ownership of the process. 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?" -- Kristian S?rensen The Umbrella Project -- Security for Consumer Electronics Linnovative -- www.linnovative.dk ks@linnovative.dk -- +45 2972 3816 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/