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Chris Nauroth updated HDFS-2856:
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Attachment: Datanode-Security-Design.pdf
I'm attaching a design document for establishing authentication of the datanode
to the client. Feedback is welcome. I'm also reassigning the issue to myself.
> Fix block protocol so that Datanodes don't require root or jsvc
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> Key: HDFS-2856
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2856
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: datanode, security
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: Datanode-Security-Design.pdf
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> Since we send the block tokens unencrypted to the datanode, we currently
> start the datanode as root using jsvc and get a secure (< 1024) port.
> If we have the datanode generate a nonce and send it on the connection and
> the sends an hmac of the nonce back instead of the block token it won't
> reveal any secrets. Thus, we wouldn't require a secure port and would not
> require root or jsvc.
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