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Date:      Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:39:38 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Spike Gronim <william@brainlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using vnconfig to do encrypted filesystems 
Message-ID:  <94524.1012945178@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2002 16:31:29 EST." <20020205163129.A25078@spike.gronim.com> 

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In message <20020205163129.A25078@spike.gronim.com>, Spike Gronim writes:
>Hey.
>
>	OpenBSD suports an option (-k) to vnconfig(8) that causes it to prompt 
>for a key which is used to encrypt whatever passes through the device. Are
>there plans to port this functionality in to FreeBSD? Thanks.

Yes, but not using the vndriver.

There is DARPA sponsored work going on to do this "right".  For an old
overview of the concept:
	http://freefall.freebsd.org/~phk/Geom

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