Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:49:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems |
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On 21 Apr 2001, 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.
I think he wants to avoid the *!!SEVERE!!* performance problems in loopback crypto. A crypto plugin directly to filesystems would certainly avoid most of it.
-Dan
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