[1801] in bugtraq
Re: password backdoors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Fri May 12 02:47:36 1995
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:22:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: "Lee J. Silverman" <lee@netspace.org>
Cc: cmcurtin@clipper.cb.att.com, System Admin <root@sentinet.demon.co.uk>,
bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950511182807.22707G-100000@netspace.org>
You are talking about the crypto file system. It does use NFS to loopback
and mount the encrypted directory in the localhost. The encryption is on
a per mounted directory basis (so its not good for multi-user systems)
and does not have compression.
a1
On Thu, 11 May 1995, Lee J. Silverman wrote:
> I'll feel terrible if I screw this up, but I think his name is Matt Blaze
> and I *think* he works for AT&T) wrote a secure filesystem that uses NFS
> on the local machine to interact with an encrypted filesystem. I do not
> remember if the encryption is done on a per-user or per partition basis,
> but in any case, if you're really interested in keeping someone with
> physical access to the machine from getting at your files, you could use
> an encrypted filesystem. Does anyone know if that system also does
> compression?
>
> As you can tell, my information is sketchy. I'm sure someone with
> more information will post and tell us where we can learn more.
>
>
> Lee Silverman lee@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/users/lee/
> Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances,
> with interstices between the intersections. -- S. Johnson
>
