From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Reiser4 crypto-compression design
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:30:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E832713.6050004@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303261916.37039.phma@webjockey.net>
Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:35, Hubert Chan wrote:
>
>
>>A related, but different question, which may have already been answered
>>by Edward's document: can a directory be encrypted, so that only a user
>>with the password can list its contents?
>>
>>
>
>The way that's done in CFS is that the filenames are stored as regular
>directory entries, but the names are encrypted. Anyone with permission can
>list the contents, but without knowing the key he gets gibberish. The names
>are stored in hex; we could also use base64 or base85, or come up with a
>cipher that avoids producing nulls and slashes.
>
>
>
>
>
I'll take a patch;-)
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-27 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-25 19:52 Reiser4 crypto-compression design Edward Shushkin
2003-03-25 20:23 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-26 17:03 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-26 18:21 ` Hans Reiser
2003-03-26 18:53 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-27 16:15 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-26 12:30 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-26 18:33 ` Hans Reiser
2003-03-26 20:35 ` Hubert Chan
2003-03-26 21:39 ` Hans Reiser
2003-03-27 0:16 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-27 16:30 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2003-03-27 23:34 ` Pierre Abbat
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