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We do need user DN for monitoring and popularity applications.

Cheers

Julia


On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Lukasz Janyst wrote:

>   AFAIK, most of dCache sites use xrootd proxies, so they are likely 
> affected, so is EOS, but fstreams have not been configured for Castor.
>
>   Is it sufficient that we encrypt the fstreams or do you want us not to 
> send the DNs at all?
>
> Cheers,
>   Lukasz
>
> On 09/01/2014 03:04 PM, Oliver Keeble wrote:
>> 
>> This is not a DPM issue - it's the xrootd fstream which sends out this
>> information so standard xrootd installations will also be affected.
>> dCache may be different, I don't know if they implemented this
>> themselves or not.
>> 
>> On 01/09/14 13:48, Andrea Manzi wrote:
>>> Hi Romain,
>>> do you know if the problem affects only DPM-xrootd or all xrootd
>>> deployments are affected ?
>>> thanks
>>> Andrea
>>> 
>>> On 01 Sep 2014, at 11:41, Romain Wartel <[log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Domenico, Matevz,
>>>> 
>>>> Just to close the loop; Please find the information below. The EGI
>>>> CSIRT, as well as WLCG operations coordination are coordinating this
>>>> issue.
>>>> I expect you will be contacted "officially" by the EGI security
>>>> vulnerability group (SVG) with an advisory before wednesday with all
>>>> the details.
>>>> 
>>>> Then we would need you to look into this asap and report back on what
>>>> corrective actions can be taken.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Romain.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> 
>>>>> *From: *Romain Wartel <[log in to unmask]
>>>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>>> *Subject: **xrootd - user DN information*
>>>>> *Date: *1 Sep 2014 10:46:21 GMT+2
>>>>> *To: *Maria Alandes Pradillo <[log in to unmask]
>>>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Oliver Keeble
>>>>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maria, Oliver,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here is the information I have regarding the user DN usage for
>>>>> monitoring in xrootd.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think the correct Indico link is
>>>>> https://indico.cern.ch/event/197803/session/0/contribution/10/material/slides/0.pdf
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Our policy on this topic is at
>>>>> https://edms.cern.ch/file/855382/5/JobAccountingDataPolicy-v1.0.pdf
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Each site is responsible for sending its accounting records on a
>>>>> regular basis, e.g. daily, with at
>>>>> least user DNs encrypted in transport, to a central data base defined
>>>>> by the Grid. This database is
>>>>> located at an Accounting Data Centre (ADC). The location of the ADC
>>>>> needs to be chosen
>>>>> carefully according to data privacy laws. "
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Romain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> *From: *Sven Gabriel <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>>>> *Subject: **[Irtf] more atlas fun*
>>>>>> *Date: *1 Sep 2014 08:14:12 GMT+2
>>>>>> *To: *IRTF <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, David
>>>>>> Groep <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>>>> *Reply-To: *Incident Response Task Force <[log in to unmask]
>>>>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is easy, .. here we have an violation of a couple of our
>>>>>> policies on how
>>>>>> th handle user privacy data.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "....The xrootd monitoring infrastructure sends user DN information
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> all user actions in cleartext over UDP packets across to SLAC in the
>>>>>> US for monitoring. They are even open about it: .."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://indico.cern.ch/event/197803/session/0/material/slides/0
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ... Mitigation can be done by blocking OUTBOUND UDP apckets on each
>>>>>> DPM xrootd host, in particular the headnode, but this is obviously not
>>>>>> done by default.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp spt:53193
>>>>>> DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp spt:55721
>>>>>> DROP udp -- anywhere atl-prod05.slac.stanford.edu
>>>>>> <http://atl-prod05.slac.stanford.edu/>
>>>>>> ...."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Does IRTF wants to send out an advisory to all sites to apply the
>>>>>> same FW
>>>>>> rules?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Sven
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ========
>>>>>> Sven Gabriel
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nikhef, Dutch National Institute for Sub-atomic Physics
>>>>>> Group Computer Technology / Room: H1.59
>>>>>> Phone: +31 20 5925103
>>>>>> Science Park 105 / 1098 XG Amsterdam / The
>>>>>> Netherlands_______________________________________________
>>>>>> Irtf mailing list
>>>>>> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> https://mailman.egi.eu/mailman/listinfo/irtf
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Romain Wartel
>>>> Security Officer
>>>> Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
>>>> CERN, IT Department
>>>> CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.cern.ch/LCG
>>>> http://cern.ch/security
>>>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>
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