On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 31.01.2014 17:24, schrieb James Peach:
>> On Jan 31, 2014, at 4:52 AM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> one small issue with ssl-certs:
>>> they must be readable by the ats-user
>>> 
>>> httpd reads them at startup before downgrade uid/gid
>>> the benefit is that they can have chmod 400 and owned by root
>>> in case of a security relevant bug that may prevent leaks
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-2353
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-612
>> 
>> Ron Barber has been working on this for 4.2 and I expect that we will land 
>> these changes soon. In the longer terms I'd like to support the Linux kernel 
>> key management API, which I believe will give you better options for 
>> controlling access to keys. 
> 
> have i said often enough "thank you" for such a responsible upstream project 
> like ATS?

Full marks to the Yahoo engineers, who have been driving the SSL improvements 
in 4.2. SSL support was formerly somewhat neglected so it's very timely and 
appreciated work :)

J

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