Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-24 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:54:34PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > why not port one of the twenty or thirty preexisting tools > that let you mount a filesystem from an encrypted file instead > of making a generic layer? That way you could have inter-os > portability. The steganographic ones make

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread David L. Nicol
Dale Amon wrote: > > Talk about syncronicity... I had just last week asked > about the pro's and con's on this on the crypto list and > have heard nothing at all back. So I'll drop the body > of that message in here: why not port one of the twenty or thirty preexisting tools that let you mount

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
Talk about syncronicity... I had just last week asked about the pro's and con's on this on the crypto list and have heard nothing at all back. So I'll drop the body of that message in here: -- I've got a crypto loopback running directly on a /dev/md0 partition and then the file system on top of t

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:21:44PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("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

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Stefan Jaschke
On Saturday 21 April 2001 20:52, Tamas Nagy wrote: > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which > allows for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. This could > be used transparently for applications or even for file-system drivers. > This doesn't mean an e

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:21:44PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("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 l

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("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 k

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Tamas Nagy wrote: > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows > for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. This could be used > transparently for applications or even for file-system drivers. This > doesn't mean an encrypted f

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Hello, ftp://www.kerneli.org/pub/linux/kerneli/ For idea encryption, you just use losetup -e idea /dev/loop0 /filesystem Password: whatever mke2fs /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Alistair Riddell
Have you tried: man losetup losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/hdxx -e DES mke2fs /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/ On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Tamas Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > Lot of people would like to know their data in secure place, and the > frequent usage of compression softwares could be time-consuming

Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Tamas Nagy
Hello, Lot of people would like to know their data in secure place, and the frequent usage of compression softwares could be time-consuming and boring sometime. Idea: extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows for file-system level encryption instead of file-lev