Re: AES encryption for NFS4 in Debian Squeeze?

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Hi,

Zaar Hai wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a right list to write to, but its a security
> related topic. I'm setting up secure NFS4 on Debian Squeeze machines
> and I'm totally surprised that NFS4 still requires insecure and
> obsolete des-crc-cbc encryption method as the only option.
> 
> The good news are that its already fixed upstream [1], both in kernel
> and nfs-utils and there is even a clean patch for linux-2.6.32 which
> is Squeeze is based on. Is there a possibility to port these changes
> to Debian Squeeze?

You should ask the respective maintainers. The final decision at this point 
is taken by the release team.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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