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From: s-jaschke@t-online.de (Stefan Jaschke)
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To: "Tamas Nagy" <nagytam@rerecognition.com>,
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Subject: Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:40:47 +0200
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On Saturday 21 April 2001 20:52, Tamas Nagy wrote:
> extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which
> allows for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. This could
> be used transparently for applications or even for file-system drivers. 
> This doesn't mean an encrypted file-system, but a transparent encryption of
> a media instead.
> I suspect that this idea may appeared in the past:(, but I haven't heard
> about it;).
Not sure what you have in mind exactly, but there are related
projects:
 - the crypto modules in the international linux kernel
   (see http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/Encryption-HOWTO.html)
 - Erik Zadok's FIST (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/)
 - the Transparent Cryptographic File System (http://www.tcfs.it/)
 - Stefan Ludwig's Fairly Secure File System 
  (http://osg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/publikat/da/00/Ludwig00.pdf,
   diploma thesis, in German)
 - Allan Latham's practical privacy disc (device) driver
   (http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/ppdd.html)
 - Matt Blaze's CFS seems to be discontinued/unsupported
   (http://koeln.ccc.de/~drt/crypto/cfs-linux-HOWTO.txt)
Maybe you clarify what exactly you want to achieve/improve compared
to the existing projects.

Stefan J.

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