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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
