From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:37:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010421213751.A13395@gruyere.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NFBBIDPOFIIFCBDDFGLEGEMICCAA.nagytam@rerecognition.com> <8766fyt5x3.fsf@xyzzy.adsl.dk>
In-Reply-To: <8766fyt5x3.fsf@xyzzy.adsl.dk>; from peter@makholm.net on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:21:44PM +0200
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:21:44PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> nagytam@rerecognition.com ("Tamas Nagy") writes:
>
> > Idea:
> > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows
> > for file-system level encryption instead of file-level.
>
> That's is one of the things the loop device offers. For better
> encryption than XOR you need the patches from kerneli.org.
No, you don't. The standard kernel loop device supports loading of external
crypto filters just fine; no patching at all required.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-21 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-21 18:52 Tamas Nagy
2001-04-21 19:10 ` Ian Stirling
2001-04-21 19:11 ` Alistair Riddell
2001-04-21 19:13 ` Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-21 19:21 ` Peter Makholm
2001-04-21 19:37 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-04-21 20:26 ` Herbert Valerio Riedel
2001-04-21 22:50 ` Dan Hollis
2001-04-21 22:49 ` Dan Hollis
2001-04-22 9:42 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-21 19:40 ` Stefan Jaschke
2001-04-23 20:12 ` Dale Amon
2001-04-24 2:54 ` David L. Nicol
2001-04-24 16:08 ` Dale Amon
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