You could also limit which hosts can rsync

Michele (Mike) Hjorleifsson


On Mar 17, 2008, at 13:38, "Tony Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> One benefit would be a secure, automatic exchanges without cleartext
> authentication.
>
> Tony
>
>
> |I wonder what the benefit would be? (I can't parse "somewhat
> |protected")
> |
> |We need no encryption on the channel, as all the published
> |information is
> |public. The objects themselves (manifests, certs, CRLs, ROAs, ...)  
> are
> |signed so you can catch tampering. Finally, the existence of manifest
> |provides source authentication. So there does not seem to be
> |any advantages
> |for this.
> |
> |OTOH, you *would* have to incorporate a completely separate
> |PKI in order to
> |authenticate hosts (potentially thousands of them).
>
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