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From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@aparity.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over.
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On 3 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
|>Encrypting the dump with the new crypto lib in the kernel would be easy,
|>right now it doesnt. 

Piece of cake.  It's like adding a dump compression module.  You
can load dump_gzip.o or dump_rle.o to specify the kind of compression
you want to use.  dump_crypto.o would be the same kind of thing.  Just
add another flag and away you go.

|>My disk dump concerns are purely those of correctness. That means
|>
|> [ ... ]
|>
|>Most of the pieces already exist.

It's just a matter of time, then.

--Matt

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