Re: on disk encryption

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On Monday, December 10, 2012 at 1:17 AM, James Page wrote:
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> On 19/09/12 02:53, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > > > Looking forward, another option might be to implement
> > > > encryption inside btrfs (placeholder fields are there in the
> > > > disk format, introduced along with the compression code way
> > > > back when). This would let ceph-osd handle more of the key
> > > > handling internally and do something like, say, only encrypt
> > > > the current/ and snap_*/ subdirectories.
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> > > > Other ideas? Thoughts?
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> > > > sage
> > I love the idea of btrfs supporting encryption natively much like
> > it does compression. It may be some time before that happens, so
> > in the meantime, I'd love to see Ceph support dm-crypt and/or
> > eCryptfs beneath.
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> Has this discussion progressed into any sort of implementation yet?
> It sounds like this is going to be a key feature for users who want
> top-to-bottom encryption of data right down to the block level.


Peter is working on this now — I'll let him discuss the details. :)
-Greg

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