Messages in this thread | | | From | phillip@lougher ... | Subject | Re: partially encrypted filesystem | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:49:57 +0000 |
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dwmw2@infradead.org wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:20 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > > Considering that Jffs2 is the only writeable compressed filesystem, yes. > > What should be borne in mind is compressed filesystems never expect > > the data after compression to be bigger than the original data. > > In fact that assumption is fairly trivial to remove, if you can put an > upper bound on the growth. Adding encryption of data to JFFS2 would > actually be fairly trivial; encryption of metadata would be harder. >
I was pointing out it had to be considered. Modesty prevented me from mentioning that adding encryption of both data and metadata to Squashfs would be very easy :-)
Phillip
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