[Planetlab-devel] nodes with small capacities - memory footprint, xmlrpc, and requirements on encryption s/w

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Thierry and Luigi,

I doubt we'll change things for PLCAPI wrt security/hashes/etc.

However, we are working on what is now called the "geni wrapper".   
While I don't know the details, I do know that some thought was put  
into changing security.

My suggestion is to move ahead with an initial implementation based  
on what is known now, rather than speculating what might come down  
the pipe in the future.

Cheers,
Marc


On May 30, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Thierry Parmentelat wrote:

>
> On May 30, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
>
>> To use an alternative to sha seems to require that the CM and  
>> PLCAPI specify alternative schemes, rather than assuming SHA.
>
> I guess Luigi's concern was more like "are there any current plans  
> to replace sha with something else", in which case he would handle  
> that matter differently.
> Luigi, is this right ?
>
> From what you're saying, it well seems that there is no such plan,  
> and that an sha-based implementation could be of interest for the  
> next coming year or so, at least.
> Marc, is this right ?
>
> -- thierry
>
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