Re: X-windows security in Gnome

[<Jim Gettys hp com>]

What was daft about the compartmented mode security stuff was the extreme
of paranoia it was taken: things like worrying about N bit/second
back channel signalling paths, and stuff like that.

The security extension in X may in fact be just fine, and as I've
been thinking more about projectors and public use of facilities like that,
it is, at an elementary level, reasonable; just not the crazy extent the
U.S. government was pushing things in the early 1990's.  One of the days
soon I'll spend a bit of time looking at the security extension...
				- Jim

> Sender: gnome-private-members-admin gnome org
> From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 22:22:59 -0400 (EDT)
> To: Jim Gettys hp com
> Cc: alan redhat com (Alan Cox), Brian Cameron Sun COM, otaylor redhat com,
>        gnome-hackers gnome org
> Subject: Re: X-windows security in Gnome
> -----
> > to applications) support for Kerb5 when installed with fall back to
> > magic-cookie; as I said, I've never delved into it.  But the compartmented
> > mode security features always struck me as daft.
> 
> When you have untrusted apps and secure data on the same screen they
> become really very important.
> 
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
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