Kernel Privilege Separation Policy

2014-07-02 Thread Dautenhahn, Nathan Daniel
Hi All- I am a graduate student at UIUC and am currently working on a system that isolates the MMU from the rest of the FreeBSD kernel. For the purpose of enabling privilege separtion within the kernel. - This code is approximately 3k lines. - This base system also provides kernel code

Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?

2014-07-02 Thread Dan Lukes
On 07/03/14 01:45, Xin Li: 1. Import a set of trusted root certificates Question is imminent ... Trusted by whom ? Trust is matter of personal decision, local law and law that apply to particular CA. If I consider a CA to be trustworthy, I will insert it's certificate to trusted store.

Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?

2014-07-02 Thread Eitan Adler
On 2 July 2014 17:26, Dan Lukes d...@obluda.cz wrote: On 07/03/14 01:45, Xin Li: 1. Import a set of trusted root certificates Question is imminent ... Trusted by whom ? IMHO, it is sane to follow the same policy that Mozilla follows and to use their root store by default. If I consider

Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?

2014-07-02 Thread Bryan Drewery
+portmgr On 7/2/2014 6:45 PM, Xin Li wrote: Hi, Currently, FreeBSD does not install a default /etc/ssl/cert.pem because we do not maintain one ourselves. We do, however, provide a port, security/ca_root_nss, which have an option to install a symbolic link as /etc/ssl/cert.pem -

Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?

2014-07-02 Thread Dan Lukes
On 07/03/14 03:47, Eitan Adler: IMHO, it is sane to follow the same policy that Mozilla follows and to use their root store by default. It's policy define very generic requirements only. Almost anyone can apply. But I'm not going to discuss Mozila's policy here beyond my opinion that it's

Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?

2014-07-02 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 04:45:53PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: Hi, Currently, FreeBSD does not install a default /etc/ssl/cert.pem because we do not maintain one ourselves. We do, however, provide a port, security/ca_root_nss, which have an option to install a symbolic link as /etc/ssl/cert.pem -

Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?

2014-07-02 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
I agree with Dan's comments as I don't really see the value in divesting blanket trust to another party. But I appreciate the heads-up from Xin Li, so I have the opportunity of moving my certs/CA/keys to a different location. ___