Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 13:03:19 -0600 From: "Darren R. Davis" <drdavis@calderasystems.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: wsanchez@apple.com, Pat Dirks <pwd@apple.com>, Alban Hertroys <dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl>, FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems Message-ID: <37FCEE77.7AA05A7A@calderasystems.com> References: <19991007060251.6D1A71DD0@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> <199910071804.LAA95956@apollo.backplane.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------34621F2399F9E13067B7C400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthew Dillon wrote > > Revisiting security now... > > A provision for public-key encryption of the data held on the disk (as > well as the id itself) would be useful. Just encrypting the ID alone > would not be useful. > > The distinction would then shift away from whether the media is removable > or not (it would no longer matter as much) and instead assume that no > unencrypted data can ever be trusted and encrypted data can be trusted > insofar as the ID can be trusted. > > Methinks this could result in a very useful project - an 'encrypted' UFS > filesystem implementation plus domain based services to translate uid's > on the fly. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Similar in thought to TCFS. see http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/ Darren --------------34621F2399F9E13067B7C400 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="drdavis.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Darren R. Davis Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="drdavis.vcf" begin:vcard n:Davis;Darren tel;fax:801.765.1313 tel;work:801.765.4999 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.calderasystems.com org:Caldera Systems, Inc.;Engineering adr:;;240 West Center Street;Orem;UT;84057;USA version:2.1 email;internet:drdavis@calderasystems.com title:Director of Research x-mozilla-cpt:;-5088 fn:Darren Davis end:vcard --------------34621F2399F9E13067B7C400-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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