Re: SoC: Improve syslogd

["Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Martin Schütte <lists%mschuette.name@localhost> 
wrote:
> Rainer Gerhards schrieb:
[SNIP]
>  4.2.3. Cryptographic Level
>    Syslog applications SHOULD be implemented in a manner that permits
>    administrators, as a matter of local policy, to select the
>    cryptographic level and authentication options they desire.
>
>  One could argue if disabling authentication is a desirable "authentication
> option"  :-)

I think this is a loophole and not the intent of the I-D ;)

I have raised the question on the IETF list, but, as usual, no response yet:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/syslog/current/msg01840.html

Rainer

>
>  (Just for reference:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls-11#section-4.2)