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Chris Nauroth updated HDFS-2856:
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    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
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>                 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
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> 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.

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