From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 00:54:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061F216A41F for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:54:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nevans@syphen.net) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [63.240.76.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECA343D46 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:54:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nevans@syphen.net) Received: from syphen.net ([68.45.49.199]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005080600540201200pcknpe>; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:54:02 +0000 Received: from speedstar (speedstar [192.168.0.11]) by syphen.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39D461C55 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:02:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 20:54:01 -0400 From: Nick Evans To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050805205401.204c817f@speedstar> In-Reply-To: <10601.1122818847@phk.freebsd.dk> References: <20050731135919.GA43753@afields.ca> <10601.1122818847@phk.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.11 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Kernel Source Divergence, Security (was: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem) X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:54:04 -0000 On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:07:27 +0200 "Poul-Henning Kamp" 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