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Chris Nauroth updated HDFS-2856: -------------------------------- Attachment: Datanode-Security-Design.pdf I'm attaching a design document for establishing authentication of the datanode to the client. Feedback is welcome. I'm also reassigning the issue to myself. > Fix block protocol so that Datanodes don't require root or jsvc > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2856 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2856 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: datanode, security > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > Assignee: Suresh Srinivas > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: Datanode-Security-Design.pdf > > > Since we send the block tokens unencrypted to the datanode, we currently > start the datanode as root using jsvc and get a secure (< 1024) port. > If we have the datanode generate a nonce and send it on the connection and > the sends an hmac of the nonce back instead of the block token it won't > reveal any secrets. Thus, we wouldn't require a secure port and would not > require root or jsvc. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira