From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 7 12: 0:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.calderasystems.com (phoenix.calderasystems.com [207.179.18.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F8A14FC4 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drdavis@calderasystems.com) Received: from calderasystems.com (drdavis@buddha.calderasystems.com [207.179.18.42]) by phoenix.calderasystems.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21513; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:00:31 -0600 Message-ID: <37FCEE77.7AA05A7A@calderasystems.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 13:03:19 -0600 From: "Darren R. Davis" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61C-CCK-MCD Caldera Systems OpenLinux [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: wsanchez@apple.com, Pat Dirks , Alban Hertroys , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems References: <19991007060251.6D1A71DD0@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> <199910071804.LAA95956@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------34621F2399F9E13067B7C400" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > 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