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From: Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partially encrypted filesystem
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:22:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071026578.10527.37.camel@argo.local> (raw)


This is slightly off topic, as it isn't a kernel implementation.  But in
regards to encryption options above the filesystem, there are user-space
tools for doing this.

For example (ahem, shamelessly plugging my own work)
pobox.com/~vgough/encfs.html - an encrypted filesystem in user-space
which uses the Linux kernel module FUSE (sf.net/projects/avf) to export
a filesystem interface to userland.  As a side note, FUSE also has
python, perl, and Java bindings for your programming pleasure.  

EncFS acts as a pass-thru layer to an existing filesystem, so it does
not require allocating space ahead of time.  But it does not do what the
original email asked, of encrypting on a file by file basis.  It is more
like a reimplementation of CFS, but without NFS being involved.  What
was asked for sounds more like TCFS (for 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels).

regards,
Valient
vgough@pobox.com



             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-10  3:22 Valient Gough [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-06 19:56 partially encrypted filesystem Pat LaVarre
2003-12-06 22:07 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-12-03 21:07 Kallol Biswas
2003-12-03 21:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-03 23:20   ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 21:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-04  0:08   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04  1:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-04  2:08       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04  3:59       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-04  2:37     ` Charles Manning
2003-12-04 14:17     ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-04 15:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 16:07         ` Phillip Lougher
2003-12-04 17:26         ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-04 18:20           ` Phillip Lougher
2003-12-04 18:40             ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-04 19:41             ` Erez Zadok
2003-12-05 11:20               ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-05 16:16                 ` Erez Zadok
2003-12-05 19:14                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-12-05 19:47                     ` Erez Zadok
2003-12-05 20:28                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-12-05 21:38                         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-12-06  0:15                         ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-12-06  1:35                           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-12-06  2:39                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-06 11:43                             ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-12-07  0:04                               ` Shaya Potter
2003-12-08 14:08                               ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-06  0:50                         ` Phillip Lougher
2003-12-08 11:37                           ` David Woodhouse
2003-12-08 13:44                             ` phillip
2003-12-08 14:07                               ` David Woodhouse
2003-12-09 23:40                             ` Pat LaVarre
2003-12-10  0:07                             ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-10  1:28                               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-12-10  2:13                               ` Charles Manning
2003-12-05 19:58                     ` Pat LaVarre
2003-12-08 11:28             ` David Woodhouse
2003-12-08 13:49               ` phillip
2003-12-04 19:18           ` David Wagner
2003-12-05 13:02             ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-05 17:28               ` Frank v Waveren
2003-12-05 23:59               ` David Wagner
2003-12-19 15:01     ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-04  3:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-04 18:16 ` Hans Reiser

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