On Nov 18, 2007 2:34 AM, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/17/07, Die Gestalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to be explained why you have to do all these steps to encrypt > > a partition. Isn't it possible to have some sort of filter driver that > > simply ciphers and deciphers data as it is received, a little bit like > > a GEOM plugin? > > anything is possible. one can even imagine using softraid to do disk > encryption, and having the encrypted disks attaching as sd, just like > normal scsi disks.
I think the goal of the improvement would be that full disk encryption is made easy and it doesn't require arcane disklabel stuff to have the optimal performance (on the other hand you could answer that one could simply write a script to automate the process...). -- Die Gestalt
