Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Andrew G. Morgan" <> | Subject | Re: Encrypted filesystem | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:00:02 -0800 (PST) |
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Stephan Meyer wrote: > I live in Munich, Germany.
Mmm, the last thing I heard, the German Govt. was talking about adopting the French laws on Crypto.. Did anything come of this?
> It's my understanding that the IDEA algorithm is copyrighted, but free to > use for noncommercial applications. Is that right? That way, we probably > couldn't include something like that in the kernel source tree. > > Is there a strong but secure algorithm? (I do not trust DES :)
What about Blowfish? Schnier's algorithm is free for any use:
http://www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html
> Please excuse, if this sounds like newbie-sh*t. I would be willing to > invest a considerable amount of work into a *secure* non-DES filesystem.
Would you be providing it as a patch against 2.0.xx or 2.1.xx or BOTH?
Regards
Andrew -- Linux-PAM, libpwdb, Orange-Linux and Linux-GSS http://parc.power.net/morgan/index.html [ For those that prefer FTP --- ftp://ftp.lalug.org/morgan ]
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