Mr. Corry, et al.: I am a member of a mailing list "linux-crypto" which currently has people working on both a kernel modification, as well as a man Mr. Jari Ruusu whom has written his own loop-back based encrypting system. I am thinking that Mr. Ruusu's solution might well be able to be molded into a plug-in for EVMS. Perhaps if there is interest in the crypto community, they will see the great possibility of running EVMS and having a plug-in for it. Then encryption would be available for any filesystem being used when EVMS (a logical volume manager) is running. I look forward contributing to the development of EVMS. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3, USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:23 PM -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Corry [mailto:corryk@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:49 PM To: stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: evms-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] Root on LV On Thursday 20 September 2001 14:10, you wrote: > Mr. Pratt, et al.: > > Actually, I just found out (via an email from Hans Reiser) that ReiserFS > will be inclusive of encryption by 30 SEP 01 (as someone funded the > development predicated on its readiness by that date), and compression is > on its way for ReiserFS. While this is a temporary / partial solution, a > compression / encryption solution on the EVMS level would apply to other > EVMS controlled filesystems which are absent an implementation of either > compression or encryption. I plan to use ReiserFS in the mean time for the > most part anyway. Yes, I'd say we definitely agree with you. Being able to encrypt at the block device level has significant advantages over doing so at the filesystem level (the foremost being that encryption only has to be implemented in one place, not multiple places). The problem is that none of the EVMS group members have any experience with encryption. Thus, we would really need to have someone with this kind of experience write this plugin. There are obviously current methods for encrypting block devices using loopback, and I hope we are able to enlist the help of some of the people who have worked on that project. -Kevin Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
