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* [PATCH 0/12: eCryptfs] eCryptfs version 0.1
@ 2005-11-03  3:32 Phillip Hellewell
  2005-11-03  3:42 ` [PATCH 1/12: eCryptfs] Makefile and Kconfig Phillip Hellewell
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  0 siblings, 12 replies; 49+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Hellewell @ 2005-11-03  3:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel; +Cc: phillip, mike, mhalcrow, mcthomps, yoder1

This set of patches constitutes eCryptfs version 0.1. We are
presenting it to be reviewed and considered for inclusion into the
kernel.

eCryptfs is a stackable filesystem that is based off of the Cryptfs
that is generated by the FiST stackable filesystem framework written
by Erez Zadok:

http://filesystems.org/

eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the headers of each file;
the headers contain OpenPGP-like packets (see RFC 2440). This allows
the encrypted underlying files to be copied between hosts, and all of
the information necessary to decrypt the files stays with the files
themselves. eCryptfs aims to make the encryption and the decryption of
each individual file completely transparent to userspace applications,
so long as the recipient has the requisite key or passphrase to access
the file available.

Michael Halcrow presented eCryptfs at the 2004 and the 2005 Ottawa
Linux Symposiums; the high-level overview from this year's symposium
starts on page 209 of the first half of the symposium proceedings:

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf

Note that this set of patches contains a considerably trimmed-down
version of eCryptfs than what was sent to the LKML earlier this
year. Release 0.1 includes mount-wide passphrase support only; this
will make eCryptfs easier to analyze and debug before the more
advanced policy and public key features are merged in.

eCryptfs performs well under a variety of tests, including FSX and
Connectathon (Basic and General functional). There is a bug that crops
up on a kernel compile. We would appreciate any insight that the VFS
guru's could give us in tracking down and fixing any extant bugs.

eCryptfs utilizes David Howells' keyring; at mount, eCryptfs version
0.1 expects an existing authentication token in the user's session
keyring. The tarball containing the code to do this is available from
the eCryptfs SourceForge site (ecryptfs-v0_1.tar.bz2):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecryptfs/

Future releases will have policy support, which will entail per-file
passphrase and per-file public key support. Those who are interested
in looking at that code are welcome to obtain it from the eCryptfs CVS
repository on SourceForge:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ecryptfs login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ecryptfs \
 co -P ecryptfs

Phillip

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* [PATCH 0/12: eCryptfs] eCryptfs version 0.1
@ 2005-11-19  4:11 Phillip Hellewell
  2005-11-19  4:17 ` [PATCH 4/12: eCryptfs] Main module functions Phillip Hellewell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 49+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Hellewell @ 2005-11-19  4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: phillip, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, viro, mike, mhalcrow,
	mcthomps, yoder1

This is a follow-up set of patches in response to comments made after
our first submission to the LKML at the beginning of this month. We
were able to track down and resolve several bugs, and we feel that
eCryptfs is now ready to be merged into the -mm tree as an
experimental filesystem.

We have successfully run a series of tests, including FSX,
Connectathon, and Bonnie. In addition, we are able to successfully
compile the Linux kernel under eCryptfs, both with and without
multiple threads on a multi-processor PPC64 machine.

We are able to invoke a bug that terminates a process when we stress
the filesystem with multiple concurrent operations (FSX, multiple
Connectathon jobs, and a kernel compile running simultaneously), but
we cannot oops the kernel with any of our test cases.

eCryptfs utilizes David Howells' keyring; at mount, eCryptfs version
0.1 expects an existing authentication token in the user's session
keyring. The tarball containing the code to do this is available from
the eCryptfs SourceForge site:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecryptfs/

Several features demonstrated in prototypes of eCryptfs at OLS in the
past have been left out of this release until they can be thoroughly
tested; the reduced complexity of this patch set should make it easier
to evaluate for initial inclusion into the Linux kernel. Future
updates will provide policy support, which will entail per-file
passphrase and per-file public key support.

Thanks,
Phillip

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2005-11-03  3:32 [PATCH 0/12: eCryptfs] eCryptfs version 0.1 Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03  3:42 ` [PATCH 1/12: eCryptfs] Makefile and Kconfig Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 15:21   ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-03 23:05     ` Greg KH
2005-11-04 16:09       ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-04 16:22         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-04 16:28           ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-04 16:35         ` Greg KH
2005-11-04 17:07           ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-03  3:43 ` [PATCH 2/12: eCryptfs] Documentation Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03  3:43 ` [PATCH 3/12: eCryptfs] Makefile Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03  3:49 ` [PATCH 4/12: eCryptfs] Main module functions Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03  6:02   ` Greg KH
2005-11-03 15:09     ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-03 15:47       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-03 15:40         ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-03 21:34     ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-04 23:28     ` [PATCH: eCryptfs] Remove debug wrappers Michael Halcrow
2005-11-03  3:50 ` [PATCH 5/12: eCryptfs] Header declarations Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 23:37   ` James Morris
2005-11-03  3:51 ` [PATCH 6/12: eCryptfs] Superblock operations Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 23:47   ` James Morris
2005-11-03  3:52 ` [PATCH 7/12: eCryptfs] File operations Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 23:49   ` James Morris
2005-11-03  3:53 ` [PATCH 8/12: eCryptfs] Dentry operations Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03  3:54 ` [PATCH 9/12: eCryptfs] Inode operations Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 23:51   ` James Morris
2005-11-04  0:24     ` Andreas Schwab
2005-11-04  6:29       ` James Morris
2005-11-03  3:55 ` [PATCH 10/12: eCryptfs] Mmap operations Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03  5:32   ` Michael Halcrow
2005-11-07 20:39     ` [PATCH: eCryptfs] Encrypt on writepage() Michael Halcrow
2005-11-03  3:56 ` [PATCH 11/12: eCryptfs] Keystore Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 23:59   ` James Morris
2005-11-04  0:08     ` Michael Halcrow
2005-11-04 17:52   ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-11-03  3:56 ` [PATCH 12/12: eCryptfs] Crypto functions Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-03 22:06   ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-11-03 22:25     ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-03 22:30       ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-11-04  0:08   ` James Morris
2005-11-04  0:14     ` Michael Halcrow
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2005-11-19  4:11 [PATCH 0/12: eCryptfs] eCryptfs version 0.1 Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-19  4:17 ` [PATCH 4/12: eCryptfs] Main module functions Phillip Hellewell
2005-11-19 10:47   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-20 15:34     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-20 19:06       ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-21 16:10     ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-21 16:12       ` Michael Thompson
2005-11-21 16:21       ` Pekka Enberg

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