Jouni Malinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:26:12AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > >> However, the supplicant does need to be able to poke wireless stuff that >> requires root privs, so there may need to be privilege separation or >> something like that within the supplicant like you suggest. But you >> don't need to do _all_ crypto in the user session, you only need to run >> the bits that derive the TLS session key (and rekeys perhaps) since >> those are the only bits that really require the user secrets directly. > > wpa_supplicant 0.6.x has support for privilege separation that allows > the wpa_supplicant process to be run as any user (wpa_priv process will > be used for operations that require root access). Actually, this moves > even more than all crypto into non-root user context.
Can this already be used for pkcs#11 operations? - dds
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