On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 17:59 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > How is an admin supposed to know what levels such as the above are, and why > > they might choose a particular one? > Supplemental question: > Why wouldn't you always want to choose the most secure one? > > I believe the proposal is trying to answer this question here: > > "It may be that setting a high security level could prevent > applications that connected to servers below that level to connect" > > but it's rather unclear, and could do with at least more explanation > and ideally some examples of things that wouldn't work. > > In any case, I can't imagine I'd ever want a Fedora machine that > wasn't "most secure" (discounting external connections).
Most secure means spending more resources and not all servers would agree with that. Today 64-bit to 80-bit security is the norm for typical internet secure connections. As you note, this proposal is about setting the bar for the default settings on a particular system. regards, Nikos -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
