On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:34:54PM +0530, Umer Q wrote: > Hi , > > thanks for your prompt reply > > actually my project is on encryption of contents on pen drive . Why not just use one of the many encrypted filesystem options for Linux today and not write a new one? > so > initially we have to demonstrate that it's possible to steal data from > the pen drive . Good luck proving that. > that is what i am saying. without the knowledge of > user, in background i will copy the data . I think you need to prove that this is possible first. Good luck with that :) > and in phase 2 , we will > implement encryption so that , even if its stolen , the data will be > in encrypted form only. just showing the vulnerability in mass storage > . Again, why not use one of the many solutions for this already? Don't reinvent the wheel again please, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html