[Cerowrt-devel] linus vs wireguard

[dpreed at deepplum.com]

Please note that my comments are from someone who, unlike Edge Security, has been involved in secure systems design off and on since 1973, not 2003 which is the level of expertise claimed by Edge Security. And I think I am the first person to write an automated system kernel exploit generation tool at about that time, working on the Multics Security Kernel project. The explotss generated searched for cases where the kernel entry points were sensitive to concurrent changes in other processors, just like Spectre and Meltdown exploit concurrent microarchitecture stuff.

This is why putting complexint in the hands of kernel developers who share a single protection domain (the kernel) is REALLY dangerous. It's not a theoretical pedantic issue.

But hey, Linus doesn't give a shit.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 2:26pm
To: cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] linus vs wireguard

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>, Network Development
<netdev at vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>


On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:37 PM David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> Fixes keep trickling in:

Pulled.

Btw, on an unrelated issue: I see that Jason actually made the pull
request to have wireguard included in the kernel.

Can I just once again state my love for it and hope it gets merged
soon? Maybe the code isn't perfect, but I've skimmed it, and compared
to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it's a work of art.

              Linus


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