On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Michał J. Gajda wrote:
> Hello,
>
> LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tomas Kouba
> said:
>>> we have a request from a user to support glite-io-client.
>
> I am the user :-).
>
>>> (...)
>>> Simply: what is it for?
>
>> It was part of the glite data management project in EGEE I, along
>> with
>> the Fireman file catalogue. Both of them have been dropped in EGEE
>> II,
>> but there was some legacy support because some users (I think
>> mainly in
>> biomed) had software which used it. I don't think it will ever be
>> released in production. It would probably be harmless to install the
>> client, but it won't be useful without a server to talk to.
>
> I believe that the gLiteIO had the in-storage file encryption
> capability that seems beneficial to the wide range of applications
> (not necessarily BioMed).
> Is there any plan to add the functionality to the current file
> catalogs?
Not in the catalogues, but yes there is a plan to add access to
encrypted storage via gfal and Hydra.
The LFC has ACLs and soon encrypted communication channel
markus
> --
> Michał
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