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From: "David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems
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Dale Amon wrote:
> 
> Talk about syncronicity... I had just last week asked
> about the pro's and con's on this on the crypto list and
> have heard nothing at all back. So I'll drop the body
> of that message in here:


why not port one of the twenty or thirty preexisting tools
that let you mount a filesystem from an encrypted file instead
of making a generic layer?  That way you could have inter-os 
portability.  The steganographic ones make really impressive
claims.  

Does linux have a truly generic plug-in file system module yet,
or are people still hacking around fake nfs servers? 




-- 
                      David Nicol 816.235.1187 dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu
                                    "Described as awesome by users"

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