Re: Userland encrypted filesystem that root cannot access.

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 03:00:14 EST

Grendel wrote:
> >
> > While mounted? No. Root has access to the entire machine and
> Why not? Just never decrypt data on fs read. Feed the client with encrypted
> data and leave it to them to decrypt it.
>

Then it's not an encrypted **FILESYSTEM**. Application level encryption
is a whole other matter. Even so, root can intercept the client process
and read the data out of its memory.

        -hpa

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