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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:56:53 +0000
From:      Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
To:        Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Encrypted networked filesystem needed
Message-ID:  <3A5F4565.F15136F4@algroup.co.uk>
References:  <00aa01c07cbd$71209dc0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>

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Artem Koutchine wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I need a networked filesystem which tranfers files  from
> host to host in encrypted manner or can be tunnelled
> over SSL (say, using stunnel).
> 
> NFS cannot be tunneled even when run in TCP mode because
> of rpc stuff
> 
> I also heard of and have read about AFS and CODA, but it seems
> like they do not support encryption, but maybe they could be tunneled.
> 
> Samba CAN be tunnelled but, IMHO, Samba plain
> sux and we use it only for windows boxes which need to access unix
> files.
> 
> So, is there a file system which support encryption and can AFS or CODA
> be tunneled? Can AFS and CODA even substitute NFS (in terms of
> functionality and convinices)?

never tried tunnelling it, but CFS works quite nicely as a crypted
filesystem.

cheers,
Adam
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