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Subject: Re: Encrypted filesystems
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk () phk ! freebsd ! dk>
Date: 2003-06-26 23:48:29
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In message <200306262335.h5QNZBNF003209@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>, Erez Zadok wr
ites:
>In message <3EFB4792.5080805@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio writes:
>> Peter B wrote:
>[...]
>> > Which operating systems manage to effectivly to use encrypted swap..?
>>
>> That's quite a different problem -- Poul-Henning Kamp's done work
>> in GEOM based disk encryption which is directly applicable to
>> encrypting swap. Key management is always interesting.
>
>You might check the work/papers by Niels Provos on encrypted swap.
>
>We've been working on this problem for our NCryptfs. To provide a
>comprehensive solution, we have to also handle swap. Luckily in Linux,
>there are specific VOPs and APIs that make it easy to hook a crypto f/s w/
>the swap.
I will present a paper on the GBDE encrypted disk facility at BSDcon2003.
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