I don't like complexity invading the kernel, personally. But it's Linux's monstrous kernel these days. We also seem to have user code being executed in the kernel (eBPF), another very risky thing regarding security, especially.
The kernel mode of a system has incredible and universal power over the entire system. That's why the Principle of Least Privilege, part of the security canon that has proven itself worthy over and over, is as important to OS kernels as the End to End argument is to the Internet. But Linus, never a security expert himself, has become a celebrity, and therefore his bad ideas are brilliant by definition. As to the ugliness of IPSec, well, the Linux implementation might be ugly, but its the goddamn standard. Fix the stupid implementation if that is the problem. Nope, not gonna happen. -----Original Message----- From: "Dave Taht" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 2:26pm To: [email protected] Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] linus vs wireguard ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking To: David Miller <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, Network Development <[email protected]>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:37 PM David Miller <[email protected]> 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 -- Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-669-226-2619 _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
