Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 20:54:01 -0400 From: Nick Evans <nevans@syphen.net> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Source Divergence, Security (was: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem) Message-ID: <20050805205401.204c817f@speedstar> In-Reply-To: <10601.1122818847@phk.freebsd.dk> References: <20050731135919.GA43753@afields.ca> <10601.1122818847@phk.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:07:27 +0200 "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In message <20050731135919.GA43753@afields.ca>, Allan Fields writes: > > >Yes, this is all very nice, but when is someone actually going to > >commit it? ;) > > I'm (as always) short of time, and GBDE is not the top priority > for me for the time being. > > So I am more than happy to see people band together and improve > gbde. > > The main work necessary is to polish the userland program and that > is relatively trivial programming, so anyone should be able to pick > that up: just go for it. > > Giving gbde a taste function so that the root filesystem can be > protected by GBDE, this is also OK by me in principle, but I'd like > to review the patch before it gets committed because there are a > large number of dragons. > > In P4:phk_gbde there is the beginning of hw-crypto support through > opencrypto(9), if somebody wants to work on that, get in touch with > me. > > -- > 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. _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I can do testing on the hardware crypto backed gbde stuff if anyone needs it. I've got a few Soekris boards I've been waiting to try out with gbde. Nick
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