ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) (08/28/90)
We are getting some useful feedback on V2.1 BETA and it looks as if we can go over to the general release by the end of next week: - Tim's "hack" seems to work around the HPUX problems - LISP is up again ("select" was getting a bad argument) - makefile bug in MACH corrected (needs -lthreads -lmach) - buf in lmgr corrected (should use "l_fp", not "*l_fp", in fseek, fwrite) - documentation didn't mention need to do a "make install" now We're also fixing a few minor bugs that astute users have brought to our attention. On another note, a new feature: One ISIS user, Mark Steiglitz, has developed an authentication/security tool for ISIS. We hope to have this in the general release before it goes out. Mark and I have also written a paper on this and he'll post the abstract and make the postscript available shortly. Basically, it uses a Needham/Schroeder logic to develop a provably secure mechanism for verifying the UNIX user-id under which a remote process is running, and uses RSA and DES to support a user-id based public key cryptosystem and encrypted channels. Mark will also provide a manual page.