Terrapin Station wrote: > > hi all, > > I was wondering if anybody has come across an open source > implementation for Linux that does the following: > > 1. Encrypt files based on individual users' keys (similar to that of > TCFS) > > 2. There is no need to mount with a particular file system like TCFS > and CryptFS does. The user is able to create files ANYWHERE (where > permission is allowed) and the file will be encrypted with his/her key. > > 3. The operation of encryption and decryption should be transparent > to the user. User should be able to work with the file(s) with any > application. > You could code up such a thing with podfuk a.k.a. userfs and gnupg, I guess. > 4. Any temporary files , like ".filename.swp' created by "vi" should > also be encrypted. > A loopback encrypted /tmp would be the only thing I can think of. > Well, maybe that was just a wish list, but if there is one, that > will be very nice indeed. Otherwise, I was thinking about writing one. > In that case, where do I start? Perhaps by working on the existing VFS? > Any suggestions? > There is said userfs. It can be used like the following, IIRC: user$ ls /path/to/file.tar.gz#. file1 file2 file3 You shoud be able to extend that to encryption via gnupg. Marc -- Marc Mutz <Marc@xxxxxxxx> http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/ University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH) Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
