If you are dual booting to windows w/ untrusted users during the day, you have a LOT 
worse potential security problems than someone looking over the contents of the cache. 

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: KELEMEN Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Encryption in OpenAFS
> 
> 
> * Ted Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020221 09:14]:
> 
> Ted,
> 
> > This is interesting.  Your users don't trust the client to
> > protect the data?  Or are you worried about the client's disks
> > being exposed during service calls or sold after a hardware
> > upgrade?
> 
> The machines are working in two-phase shifts: during the day they
> are public access student workstations at the university (running
> whatever W*ndows version), during the night they are members of a
> Linux cluster.  Management is concerned about AFS cache contents
> potentially exposed to unauthorized eyes during daytime (we have
> international collaborators).  Current workaround is scheduled
> shutdown before daytime shift starts that includes cache-wiping.
> 
> Peter
> 
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