Subject: Re: CryptoGraphic Disk.
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: None <netbsd99@sudog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/04/2002 12:48:04
On Friday 04 October 2002 12:09, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
> I've just committed cgd, the CryptoGraphic Disk.
>
> The cgd is basically a pseudo-disk which encrypts blocks on their
> way to the disk that it is attached to. Currently it supports 3
> crypto algorithms: aes-cbc, blowfish-cbc and 3des-cbc. The IV is
> chosen by the ``IV generation method'', the only one that is
> implemented is ``encblkno'', i.e. encrypted block number.
>
> For more information about how to use and configure cgds please
> refer to the provided documentation, cgd(4) and cgdconfig(8).
Well I sure hope it descrypts the information on the way back, too!
Does this work on vnd(4) devices, too?