This 12-part patch set includes several minor updates, but the main feature is that eCryptfs can support a user-selectable cipher and key size at mount time. Once these patches are applied, users will need to update to the new userspace util package for the mount helper, which is named ``ecryptfs-util-git-2.6.17-rc6-mm2++.tar.bz2'' and is available from the eCryptfs SourceForge site: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133988 eCryptfs enthusiasts may notice that we got rid of all the shell scripts and implemented the whole mount helper in natively compiled code; we are also a bit more careful with how we handle sensitive passphrase material in memory. We do quite a bit of work with trying to auto-detect available ciphers provided by the kernel. We would appreciate folks who have the time to review that userspace code and let us know if you have any suggestions as to how we could do things better in that area. Thanks to our interns, Tyler Hicks, Theresa Nelson, and Trevor Highland for contributing the majority of the kernel and userspace code toward cipher selection functionality. They are now hard at work getting public key support implemented. Thanks, Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
