From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jesper Juhl" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] fuse: add POSIX file locking support Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:04:27 +0200 Message-ID: <9a8748490606190204n6e2ea0caua0015f4edd2fe7ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <9a8748490606190121u3c76c6bbif707835ec7e5873c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:35970 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252AbWFSJEa (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:04:30 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y25so1230708nfb for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:04:29 -0700 (PDT) To: "Miklos Szeredi" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 19/06/06, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > How about; on fuse startup, pick some semirandom number, store it > > somewhere, then do an XOR of the pointer with the saved value to > > scramble it, when you need to use it, simply XOR it again with the > > stored value... Not especially strong, but better than nothing and > > better than just adding a constant that people can find out from the > > source > > I think Andrew was suggesting a random key for the ADD function. > > > (and the scramble value would be differene each time fuse loads, so > > at a minimum a different scramble key every boot) - also, XOR is a > > quite fast operation so overhead should be low. > > I think XOR might be even weaker than ADD, because from gessing the > difference between two values (easy) you might be able to guess the > bits of the key. > > I'm actually looking for something stronger than XOR or ADD, but it's How about using TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorithm), XTEA or XXTEA then? They are quite simple algorithms, easy to implement and resonably fast (with TEA being the simplest, but also weakest). A hell of a lot better than just a simple XOR or ADD and probably more than sufficient for this purpose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Encryption_Algorithm http://www.simonshepherd.supanet.com/tea.htm http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/papers/djw-rmn/djw-rmn-tea.html -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html