From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 20:55:53 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E91AD99.2070001@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304041901.52770.phma@webjockey.net>
Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Friday 04 April 2003 13:45, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>
>>Edward Shushkin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On the
>>>other hand, on the last seminar we made a conclusion to check key
>>>validness in oredr to avoid a possible security hole when read() first
>>>looks for uptodate (decrypted!) pages in memory before reading encrypted
>>>data from disk..
>>>
>>>
>>So how about making a key of 0 be a special case which gets you the file
>>in its encrypted form?
>>
>>
>
>Sounds good, but we need to limit who can access the ciphertext. Otherwise the
>tape monkey could get out his infinite typewriter and trash the backup.
>
>
>
>
>
I don't understand you. The tape operator can use bad tape and trash
the backup that way also....
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-07 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-29 1:26 Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem Pierre Abbat
2003-03-29 16:46 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-29 16:55 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-29 18:17 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-29 20:49 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-30 10:12 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-30 17:00 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-31 9:15 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-30 16:30 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-31 11:21 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-31 12:09 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-31 13:36 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-31 13:54 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-31 16:35 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-31 20:11 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-03-31 21:31 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-31 22:40 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-01 9:31 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-03-31 13:58 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-03-31 16:45 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-04-01 12:28 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-04-01 16:06 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-01 16:16 ` Anders Widman
2003-04-01 16:21 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-02 2:56 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-02 6:06 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-02 13:05 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-02 15:11 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-04-03 16:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-03 19:43 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-03 20:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-03 19:44 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-03 23:22 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-04 0:25 ` Russell Coker
2003-04-04 14:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-04 14:30 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-04 14:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-04 14:57 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-04 16:36 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-04-04 16:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-04 15:25 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-04-04 16:50 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-04 17:19 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-04-04 18:45 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-05 0:01 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-07 0:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-07 1:14 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-07 4:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-07 16:55 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2003-04-07 18:38 ` Edward Shushkin
2003-04-07 19:46 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-07 22:36 ` Pierre Abbat
2003-04-08 10:10 ` Edward Shushkin
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