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Re: Secure NFS

From: Michael Osten <mosten () bleepyou com>
Date: 27 Feb 2003 11:44:10 -0600

I've been wondering about this for a while now...

Everybody knows NFS is insecure. Right. So no-one uses it. Why not simply
modify NFS to use encryption? Why not?



I wouldn't say that no one uses NFS, secure or not.

See here on ways to encrypt NFS traffic:

http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/

Here is the "Secure NFS RFC"
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-7/node184.html#securerpc

For AIX:
http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/aixbman/security/secure_nfs.htm

Looks like it works on BSD and Solaris:
http://www.crufty.net/Products/sNFS.html

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