From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josef Bacik Subject: Re: Encryption in btrfs Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:03:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20100518190358.GA3108@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Jay Sullivan Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:54:35PM -0400, Jay Sullivan wrote: > Hi, >=20 > In the past, I've heard rumors that there are plans to support > [transparent] encryption in btrfs. =A0If you guys were able to get > compression to work already, I don't see what's stopping you from > implementing encryption. =A0I'd like to strongly recommend that you l= ook > into using=A0the "NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library" (see > http://nacl.cace-project.eu/ =A0) 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 thought= s > on this, as I think it could work out quite nicely. >=20 Whenever somebody manages to get around to encryption it will likely us= e the built in crypto library already in the kernel so we don't go around dup= licating code. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html