[Fwd: filesystem encryption]

Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 04:57:35 -0400

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> I might try to hack ext2 to do encryption, depends on how scary the
> code looks.

As well as the obvious algorithm-protocol choice, there are other issues
such as how you pass the user passphrase down through the mount
command to the kernel, and how do you do this for a root file system
that is automatically mounted. Storing the user passphrase anywhere
on disk is absolutely not acceptable. I'm sure one of the linux kernel
experts that parse this list will respond with good advice.

Regards,

- Andy

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