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From: "Matthew J. Fanto" <mattf@mattjf.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The Ext3sj Filesystem
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:33:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210301633.16910.mattf@mattjf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021030200020.GV28982@clusterfs.com>

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 03:00 pm, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 1) having so many encryption algorithms is a huge pain in the ass, and
>    it will never be accepted into the kernel like that.  Pick some
>    "good" encryption algorithms (like those that will be supported as
>    part of IPSec and/or the encrypted loop devices: 3DES, AES, RC5 or
>    whatever) and then there can be some re-use with other parts of the
> kernel. 

I don't believe having so many algorithms is such a pain. It gives users more 
choices. I've spoke to people who will not trust AES, 3DES, SHA, and even 
the AES finalists because they believe NIST/NSA only picked weak algorithms. 
Obviously there will be a default algorithm (probably AES and SHA1), so I 
don't think having more algorithms will cause users problems. Only problem I 
see is maintaining all of them.

-Matthew J. Fanto


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-30 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-30 19:34 The Ext3sj Filesystem Matthew J. Fanto
2002-10-30 20:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-30 21:33   ` Matthew J. Fanto [this message]
2002-10-31 16:21     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-11-01  1:32   ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-30 20:28 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-31 16:36   ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-30 20:56 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-10-30 21:20   ` Matthew J. Fanto
2002-10-30 21:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-30 21:40   ` Matthew J. Fanto
2002-11-01  4:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-01  5:14   ` Matthew J. Fanto

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