From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 5 13:42:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B0437B422 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g15LdcM94526; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:39:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Spike Gronim Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using vnconfig to do encrypted filesystems In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2002 16:31:29 EST." <20020205163129.A25078@spike.gronim.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:39:38 +0100 Message-ID: <94524.1012945178@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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