I don't like complexity invading the kernel, personally. But it's Linux's
monstrous kernel these days. We also seem to have user code being executed in
the kernel (eBPF), another very risky thing regarding security, especially.
The kernel mode of a system has incredible and universal power over the entire
system. That's why the Principle of Least Privilege, part of the security canon
that has proven itself worthy over and over, is as important to OS kernels as
the End to End argument is to the Internet.
But Linus, never a security expert himself, has become a celebrity, and
therefore his bad ideas are brilliant by definition.
As to the ugliness of IPSec, well, the Linux implementation might be ugly, but
its the goddamn standard. Fix the stupid implementation if that is the problem.
Nope, not gonna happen.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave Taht" <dave.t...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 2:26pm
To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] linus vs wireguard
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking
To: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>, Network Development
<net...@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org>
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:37 PM David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> Fixes keep trickling in:
Pulled.
Btw, on an unrelated issue: I see that Jason actually made the pull
request to have wireguard included in the kernel.
Can I just once again state my love for it and hope it gets merged
soon? Maybe the code isn't perfect, but I've skimmed it, and compared
to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it's a work of art.
Linus
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