Sandy Stewart wrote: > My team would like to request that the Storage Community sponsor a project to > release the Sun KMS 2.0 API as an Open Source Module. > > The intent of this project is to make available to any partner, the protocol > by which an arbitrary encryption agent can receive encryption keys in a > secure and authenticated manner from the Sun KMS 2.0.
I support this being something that the security community would also endorse, personally I think this is about 50/50 storage/security. The way to move this forward is to write up a proposal for the project similar to what was done recently with the Data Tethers project, see the following mail message in the security-discuss archives as an example proposal: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/security-discuss/2008-August/006098.html -- Darren J Moffat