Up to a point:

If you are enabled to use User-Key CSA via RUCSA I believe you "have a 
ticket to THE party", the ONE AND ONLY party. Meaning you can access other 
users' allocations of User Key CSA.

Someone correct me if I've got this wrong.

If I'm right auditors might not be quite so happy.

Thanks, Martin

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From:   "Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM" <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   10/09/2019 08:37
Subject:        Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA
Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>



I think security auditors should be happy, provided they have done their 
homework.
CSA was wide open to everybody since the beginning, the option to close 
the gate (userkeycsa(no)) is available for a decade already and now the 
gate can be controlled in detail. 

Kees.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: 09 September, 2019 21:21
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA
> 
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 13:19:40 -0400, Tom Conley wrote:
> 
> >On 9/9/2019 1:04 PM, Mark Zelden wrote:
> >> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:55:29 -0500, Peter Fatzinger wrote:
> >>
> >>>   The 1M increment for RUCSA storage was not chosen haphazardly.  We
> understand the scarcity of below-the-line memory, but in order to 
provide
> the isolation needed to adequately protect the area we couldn't use any
> increment smaller than 1M.
> >>
> >> I pretty much assumed that, but thanks for the confirmation.
> >>
> >>>   Also, in case anyone is unaware, beginning in z/OS V2R4 RUCSA is a
> separately ordered paid feature.
> >
> >Youse wants to break da rules, youse gotta pay.
> >
> How might security auditors look at RUCSA which:
> 
> 
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2
> r3.ieae100/ieae1-rucsa.htm
>     Accessible only from address spaces that are running under user IDs
> that have
>     SAF READ authority to the IARRSM.RUCSA profile in the FACILITY 
class,
> or
>     on z/OSĀ® V2R3 or earlier systems that have the VSM
> ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES)
>     parameter specified
> 
> I suppose it depends on the breadth of the exposure.
> 
> This is vaguely similar to the changes introduced by IO11698:  IBM found
> it
> impractical to make the facility secure so they wrapped it with SAF so 
the
> onus can be placed on the customer.
> 
> -- gil
> 
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