Re: lan based kgdb

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
18 Nov 2002 00:52:36 +0100


ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> I agree that you cannot do a perfect job. The goal is to get something
> that is good enough so that it can be enabled and not give an automatic root
> exploit if someone accidentally leaves it on at the wrong time.

You can always use a simple mac / shared secret scheme. Just use HMAC on each
packet. The kernel has all the needed code in crypto/ now.

May not be military grade, but should be good enough to stop most attacks.

-Andi
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