[24397] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cryptographic filesystem for Linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (strick -- henry strickland)
Wed Dec 21 03:25:43 1994
To: Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, strick@gwarn.versant.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Dec 1994 02:28:09 EST."
<199412210728.CAA14366@bb.hks.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 00:07:27 -0800
From: strick -- henry strickland <strick@versant.com>
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THUS SPAKE Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl.com>:
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# Is there an encrypted filesystem for Linux out there? I'm speaking of
# something like Secure File System(DOS), but for Linux. The kernel in
# question is 1.1.59, soon to be upgraded to a later version. IDE drive,
# ex2fs formatted file system.
I've thought about porting Matt Blaze's "cfs" to linux.
For several reasons:
-- because I trust his practical crypto ability more than mine
or most anyone else's
-- because it runs in user-level code rather than in the
kernel -- making both installation and development
much easier
-- because it's had some serious usage and refinement
Q: What is it in the "cfs" code that makes it BSD-specific?
How much work would it be to overcome that?
thx, strick
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