FW: openmash interface

[Ivan R. Judson]

This is good news. It looks like OM Vic can have DES encryption via the
-K command line option if it's compiled with support.

We might consider reflecting a copy of OM that we tailor for the AG,
enabling encryption, compiling optimization by default, etc as part of
the AG 2 cvs repository.  Lai Lim has expressed the opinion (reflected
by those that voted during the town hall) that we should keep a copy of
the tools required by AG 2.0 in the AG cvs repository so people can get
everything they need. This seems like a reasonable idea, since we'll be
effectively supporting that code anyhow. Thoughts?

-Ivan

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Cope [mailto:cope at mcs.anl.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:46 PM
To: judson at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: openmash interface


heres the deal with encrypted vic:

-due to us export controls, blah, blah, blah... openmash/vic cannot
be distributed with along with des

-but, at build time, it does look for des, and has for version up to 4
years old, and if found will be configured to use it as an option.
how this works is simple:
	download the standard desCore distro. i got mine from
	http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/crypto/descore/

	unshar it into a directory named "desCore"
	then just "make" it. its a small program, so there shoulnt be
any
complications
	put the desCore directory in the mash directory.(usually
"mash-code" or something like that)
	then just build mash normally. (i had to delete an extra "}"
that
weirdly got added to a few files, but thats probably not the case in
stable version of mash)
	you'll know you did it right caus you should see a lot of
compiling text about "crypt-des" and stuff

to use des-encrypted vic:
	command line:
		-K is an option that gets followed by the des key
	gui:
		hit the menu button to open the control panel
		in the session panel there is an encryption key box. the

des key goes in the key box. a null entry turns encryption off. the only

other piece of the puzzle i see is finding an interface to distribute
the
des key. but you said not to worry. also, it might be cool to automate
entering the des key with receiving the distributed key.

btw, my des-enabled openmash install on nfs in /homes/cope/AG/mash-code

any ?s

-chris