Design for Seaweed-FS security Design Objectives Security can mean many different things. The original vision is that: if you have one machine lying around somewhere with some disk space, it should be able to join your file system to contribute some disk space and network bandwidth. To achieve this purpose, the security should be able to: 1. Secure the inter-server communication. Only real cluster servers can join and communicate. 2. allow clients to securely write to volume servers Non Objective Multi-tenant support. Avoid filers or clients cross-updating files. User specific access control. Design Architect master, and volume servers all talk securely via 2-way SSL for admin. upon joining, master gives its secret key to volume servers. filer or clients talk to master to get secret key, and use the key to generate JWT to write on volume server. A side benefit: a time limited read feature? 4. volume server needs to expose https ports HTTP Connections clear http filer~>master, need to get a JWT from master filer~>volume 2-way https master~ssl~>volume volume~ssl~>master file uploading: when volume server starts, it asks master for the secret key to decode JWT when filer/clients wants to upload, master generate a JWT filer~>volume(public port) master~>volume(public port)