crypto (Re: Google Summer of Code idea)

[Magnus Eriksson]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:

Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
Dare I point at the device mapper GSoC project which includes
implementing the crypt target? I think that's generic enough (;P) and
would also get us mature volume management for free.

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Now all you need is to find the people who are going to implement and 
maintain the whole thing.
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I'm all for pooling our developer resources with other BSDs
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Then what about cgd?

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cgd.html

http://man.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cgd

DESCRIPTION
     The cgd driver provides the capability of encrypting blocks on
     their way to and from a disk or partition.
Just a suggestion.  As I understand it, it is regarded as well designed, 
and crypto is not an area where you want to take chances with new 
inventions.  (It happens to work well for my purposes too...)

On a side note, I think that NetBSD could gain from some DF ideas too, in 
case anyone thinks I'm just trolling the DF lists for converts.  Hammer, 
obviously, and also the BSD Installer comes to mind.

MAgnus