README.FIRST

This is the README file for ktokens 0.2.

Useful files:

license/ktokens.license       License under which the code is distributed
docs/NOTES                    Release notes and code discussion
docs/proposal.txt             Document describing token behavior and intent
impl/                         All implementation code

Read from top to bottom for greatest enjoyment.  This work is experimental
and written largely for my own exploration of the issues involved.  However,
I hope that it will be useful outside of my own personal systems.  Please
feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the material.  I
also encourage the submission of patches, fixes, new features, etc, to me.
I won't necessarily include them in any future releases that might occur, but
would certainly be interested in seeing them.

Robert Watson


Contact information:

  FreeBSD Tokens Page: http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/tokens/

  FreeBSD related questions: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org
  General ktokens questions: robert+sec.ktokens@cyrus.watson.org
  Personal email: robert@fledge.watson.org

Thanks to:

  Peter Braam, CMU Coda Project, for opportunities to discuss ways to use
  and implement PAGs for distributed filesystems.

  TISLabs NetSec and Wrappers research groups for assistance in reviewing the
  materials and concepts required to implement token support, as well as
  potential uses.

  Leigh Denault, my incredibly patient girlfriend, who put up with me working
  on this code non-stop for several days while we were on vacation (!).

$Id: README.FIRST,v 1.4 1998/07/06 00:18:40 robert Exp $