From: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>,
Mike Halcrow <mike@halcrow.us>
Subject: [PATCH 0/12] eCryptfs minor fixes; support for cipher/key size selection
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:21:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060620212134.GB18701@us.ibm.com> (raw)
This 12-part patch set includes several minor updates, but the main
feature is that eCryptfs can support a user-selectable cipher and key
size at mount time. Once these patches are applied, users will need to
update to the new userspace util package for the mount helper, which
is named ``ecryptfs-util-git-2.6.17-rc6-mm2++.tar.bz2'' and is
available from the eCryptfs SourceForge site:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133988
eCryptfs enthusiasts may notice that we got rid of all the shell
scripts and implemented the whole mount helper in natively compiled
code; we are also a bit more careful with how we handle sensitive
passphrase material in memory. We do quite a bit of work with trying
to auto-detect available ciphers provided by the kernel. We would
appreciate folks who have the time to review that userspace code and
let us know if you have any suggestions as to how we could do things
better in that area.
Thanks to our interns, Tyler Hicks, Theresa Nelson, and Trevor
Highland for contributing the majority of the kernel and userspace
code toward cipher selection functionality. They are now hard at work
getting public key support implemented.
Thanks,
Mike
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-20 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-20 21:21 Michael Halcrow [this message]
2006-06-20 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/12] asm/scatterlist.h -> linux/scatterlist.h Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:22 ` [PATCH 2/12] Support for larger maximum key size Mike Halcrow
2006-06-21 14:49 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2006-06-21 15:50 ` Michael Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 3/12] Add codes for additional ciphers Mike Halcrow
2006-06-21 15:08 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2006-06-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 4/12] Unencrypted key size based on encrypted key size Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 5/12] Packet and key management update for variable " Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 6/12] Add ecryptfs_ prefix to mount options; key size parameter Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 7/12] Set the key size from the default for the mount Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:23 ` [PATCH 8/12] Check for weak keys Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 9/12] Add #define values for cipher codes from RFC2440 (OpenPGP) Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 10/12] Convert bits to bytes Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 11/12] More elegant AES key size manipulation Mike Halcrow
2006-06-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 12/12] More intelligent use of TFM objects Mike Halcrow
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