Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:13:50 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: DoubleF <doublef@tele-kom.ru> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vnode-based encryption driver Message-ID: <20030206191350.GB17503@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030206180026.5631.qmail@mail.tele-kom.ru> References: <20030206180026.5631.qmail@mail.tele-kom.ru>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:00:26PM -0000, DoubleF wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I'm running 4.4-RELEASE and I'm changing the vn(4) driver to do > transparent data encryption (for now it's a lame XOR algorithm, > but that's not forever; I once made it to run with CAST128 from > the crypto libs, and fell back just to sort out problem No 2 > below). My questions are: >=20 > 1) Am I reinventing the wheel? Don't tell me about cfs, though. > I know that something concerning cryptography is going to get > into 4.8-R kernel from OpenBSD, but what will it look like? Yes..several people have already done exactly this (see e.g. the vncrypt port), and 5.0 has a generalized disk device encryption system (GBDE). Kris --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+QrPtWry0BWjoQKURAgnQAJ9BUnAGBbrw6FAgNzoHKCIW4li8XwCcDo0W D/+LKzRtU6/bB9S2cqyDrSE= =ag17 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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