On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Matthew J. Fanto wrote:
>
> I am annoucing the development of the ext3sj filesystem. Ext3sj is a new
> encrypted filesystem based off ext3. Ext3sj is an improvement over the
> current loopback solution because we do not in fact require a loopback
> device. Encryption/decryption is transparent to the user, so the only thing
> they will need to know is their key, and how to mount a device. We do not
> encrypt the entire volume under the same key as some solutions do (this can
> not only aid in a known-plaintext attack, but it gives the users less
> options). Instead, every file is encrypted seperately under the key of the
> users choice. We are also adding support for reading keys off floppies,
> cdroms, and USB keychain drives. Currently, ext3sj supports the following
> algorithms: AES, 3DES, Twofish, Serpent, RC6, RC5, RC2, Blowfish, CAST-256,
> XTea, Safer+, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, MD5, with more to come.
> If anyone has any comments, questions, or would like to request an algorithm
> be added, please let me know.
Is this just an announcement of an interesting idea, or does the code
exist? I looked at www.mattjf.com found a buch of "not on this server"
links, and a bunch of useful doc files, but no mention of extsj.
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