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Re: [homenet] A TOFU approach to naming things in the homenet (with code!)

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Fri, 14 April 2017 21:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] A TOFU approach to naming things in the homenet (with code!)
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Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> writes:

> I really like this idea.

Thanks!

> Obviously, it's the sort of thing whose scope had better be pretty
> limited (e.g. you better know what network those TOFU requests are
> coming from), but apart from that it seems quite useful.

Yeah. The daemon will only allow new registrations from configured
white-listed subnets (and only speaks TCP to avoid spoofing problems).
Subsequent authenticated updates can optionally be allowed for any IP.

-Toke

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