inferno secstored?

[Go Phone]

Hello,

Inferno's secstore needs a plan9 secstored, correct?

I cannot seem to find a secstored.b in inferno. Hence, want to check if such an implementation is needed or obsolete?

Thanks

[da...@boddie.org.uk]

I grepped through the historical releases of Inferno and didn't find anything. The man page for secstore in the current release says this:

  "Secstore establishes a secure authenticated connection with a Plan 9 secstore service (or equivalent, such as Plan 9 from User Space), that can then be used to fetch and decrypt data files, such as the factotum file containing the initial keys for an instance of factotum(4)."

[http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/2/secstore.html]

So I think you're correct in thinking that it needs a Plan 9 secstored.

David

[Go Phone]

Hello David,

  "Secstore establishes a secure authenticated connection with a Plan 9 secstore service (or equivalent, such as Plan 9 from User Space), that can then be used to fetch and decrypt data files, such as the factotum file containing the initial keys for an instance of factotum(4)."

[http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/2/secstore.html]

So I think you're correct in thinking that it needs a Plan 9 secstored.

 

Thanks for checking it out. We discussed this in #cat-v and it appears wise to obsolete secstore. It is probably the reason nobody bothered to write a secstored limbo implementation.

All it does is store a few factotum commands which any encrypt/decrypt algorithm should handle (imho). It does not make sense to me to store the key to secstore in encrypted format to read some more encrypted stuff.

Thanks

[hiro]

> It does not make sense to me to store the key to secstore in encrypted format to read some more encrypted stuff.

exactly!

[Charles Forsyth]

The patent that prevented a limbo secstored has expired.

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[hiro]

not sure if this is a joke, but if not, the patent doesn't make the
idea any better :P

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[clasp126...@icebubble.org]

Go Phone <gopho...@gmail.com> writes:

> It does not make sense to me to store the key to secstore in encrypted
> format to read some more encrypted stuff.

...unless you feel like eventually changing your password w/o
re-encrypting your data, or you want to re-encrypt your data w/o having
to change your password. In such cases, a single level of cryptographic
indirection is helpful.