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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:21:40 +0400
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To: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
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Anders Widman wrote:

>>My policy is that user hassle should be minimal, and we should try to
>>select at least one default key management set of utilities to integrate
>>well with and test with.
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>>Are you sure we should not get keys from the environment? Is there too
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>>It would be best if people could use applications that are unaware of
>>the crypto mechanism when accessing files.
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>I think this is very important. Making all software aware would be a
>much bigger task to accomplish?
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>//Anders
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I think it is essential to the task that apps not be aware of keys.

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Hans