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Cryptographic filesystem for Linux?

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NODE bf35089dCryptographic filesystem for Linux?
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Is there an encrypted filesystem for Linux out there? I'm speaking of 
something like Secure File System(DOS), but for Linux. The kernel in 
question is 1.1.59, soon to be upgraded to a later version. IDE drive, 
ex2fs formatted file system.

Regards.

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NODE 5e6d202aRe: Cryptographic filesystem for Linux?
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THUS SPAKE Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl.com>:
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# Is there an encrypted filesystem for Linux out there? I'm speaking of 
# something like Secure File System(DOS), but for Linux. The kernel in 
# question is 1.1.59, soon to be upgraded to a later version. IDE drive, 
# ex2fs formatted file system.

I've thought about porting Matt Blaze's "cfs" to linux.
For several reasons: 

	-- because I trust his practical crypto ability more than mine
		or most anyone else's

	-- because it runs in user-level code rather than in the
		kernel -- making both installation and development
		much easier 

	-- because it's had some serious usage and refinement


Q: What is it in the "cfs" code that makes it BSD-specific?
How much work would it be to overcome that?

		thx, strick



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NODE bdeadcc8Re: Cryptographic filesystem for Linux?
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> I've thought about porting Matt Blaze's "cfs" to linux.

	cfs already runs on linux, s'far as I can tell. I was using it
on linux about a year ago or so..

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NODE bcf6ed65Re: Cryptographic filesystem for Linux?
On Wed, 21 Dec 1994, sameer wrote:

> > 
> > I've thought about porting Matt Blaze's "cfs" to linux.
> 
> 	cfs already runs on linux, s'far as I can tell. I was using it
> on linux about a year ago or so..
> 

Anyone know where i can ftp it from?
I am outside the USA ;-)

Phill..


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NODE 26a4a7bcRe: Cryptographic filesystem for Linux?
Jason Burrell says:
> Is there an encrypted filesystem for Linux out there? I'm speaking of 
> something like Secure File System(DOS), but for Linux. The kernel in 
> question is 1.1.59, soon to be upgraded to a later version. IDE drive, 
> ex2fs formatted file system.

Matt Blaze's CFS should port to any system where NFS works...

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