On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:54:35PM -0400, Jay Sullivan
wrote:> Hi,
>
> In the past, I''ve heard rumors that there are plans to support
> [transparent] encryption in btrfs. If you guys were able to get
> compression to work already, I don''t see what''s stopping
you from
> implementing encryption. I''d like to strongly recommend that you
look
> into using the "NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library" (see
> http://nacl.cace-project.eu/ ) by Daniel J. Bernstein. It is
> extremely lightweight, fast, secure, and has an extremely simple API.
> I''d really like to see btrfs take advantage of such a great
> cryptographic library. I''m interested in hearing all of your
thoughts
> on this, as I think it could work out quite nicely.
>
Whenever somebody manages to get around to encryption it will likely use the
built in crypto library already in the kernel so we don''t go around
duplicating
code. Thanks,
Josef
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