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    SubjectRe: The Ext3sj Filesystem
    On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Matthew J. Fanto wrote:

    > I am annoucing the development of the ext3sj filesystem. Ext3sj is a new
    > encrypted filesystem based off ext3. Ext3sj is an improvement over the
    > current loopback solution because we do not in fact require a loopback
    > device. [snip] Instead, every file is encrypted seperately

    Very nice, for exactly the reasons you outlined ;)

    > Currently, ext3sj supports the following algorithms: AES, 3DES, Twofish,
    > Serpent, RC6, RC5, RC2, Blowfish, CAST-256, XTea, Safer+, SHA1, SHA256,
    > SHA384, SHA512, MD5, with more to come. If anyone has any comments,

    How about using the algorithms that are already in the kernel
    via the crypto API so all of the kernel can share the same
    crypto algorithms ?

    regards,

    Rik
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