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 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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