Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFD] Common userspace tool for fscypto | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:59:57 +0200 |
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Michael,
On 19.10.2016 19:36, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Since file level encryption has more than one user, currently ext4, f2fs and soon ubifs >> it would be nice to have a single tool to control fscrypto from userspace. >> >> For ext4 we have already at least two tools, one as part of e2fsprogs and another >> one on github[0]. IMHO the latter one is much more user friendly and intuitive to use. >> I as unable to find the userspace tool for f2fs. >> >> That said, what about implementing such a tool as part of util-linux to control >> fscrypto? We (David and I) would volunteer. > > While discussing several changes we have staged for release (we're > trying to minimize churn by batching a large set of format changes all > at once), we've recently recognized this need on my team and were > planning on starting work on exactly what you propose.
Can you please some details? Will it be GPL? Part of util-linux? What features does it have? I hope more than just being a wrapper to the ioctls().
Thanks, //richard
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