Re: Encryption in btrfs

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:54:35PM -0400, Jay Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     In the past, I've heard rumors that there are plans to support
> [transparent] encryption in btrfs.  If you guys were able to get
> compression to work already, I don't see what's stopping you from
> implementing encryption.  I'd like to strongly recommend that you look
> into using the "NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library" (see
> http://nacl.cace-project.eu/  ) 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 thoughts
> on this, as I think it could work out quite nicely.
> 

Whenever somebody manages to get around to encryption it will likely use the
built in crypto library already in the kernel so we don't go around duplicating
code.  Thanks,

Josef
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