Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:34:46 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: The Ext3sj Filesystem |
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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. Encryption/decryption is transparent to the user, so the only thing > they will need to know is their key, and how to mount a device. We do not > encrypt the entire volume under the same key as some solutions do (this can > not only aid in a known-plaintext attack, but it gives the users less > options). Instead, every file is encrypted seperately under the key of the > users choice. We are also adding support for reading keys off floppies, > cdroms, and USB keychain drives. 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, questions, or would like to request an algorithm > be added, please let me know.
Is this just an announcement of an interesting idea, or does the code exist? I looked at www.mattjf.com found a buch of "not on this server" links, and a bunch of useful doc files, but no mention of extsj.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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