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Re: TCFS for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremey Barrett)
Sat May 31 21:15:32 1997
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 17:14:27 -0700
To: zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu, cryptography@c2.net
From: Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@bluemoney.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705302251.QAA03925@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
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At 04:51 PM 5/30/97 -0600, zinc wrote:
>Has anyone on the list looked at the Transparent Cryptographic File
>System that is available for Linux? I am not a cryptographer so I am
>not sure how good this is compared with CFS by Matt Blaze (which I
>currently use). TCFS is supposedly much faster than CFS and does not
>require one to make a specific directory for encrypted files, they are
>just given a new attr flag (X).
I can't answer your question but I've been pretty happy using the loop
device with patches (to 2.0.11) to be found here:
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/index.html
YMMV.
Jeremey.
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Jeremey Barrett BlueMoney Software Corp.
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