Subject: Transparent Crypting File System for NetBSD-1.6.2 available
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.gangsta.local>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/09/2004 19:10:36
TCFS is a pretty nifty little package. It uses currently unused
bits in the inode to flag if a file is encrypted or not, so you
can mix encrypted and plaintext files on an unmodified FFS partition.
And the patches for NetBSD-1.6.1 work on NetBSD-1.6.2. It actually
only requires patching three kernel files and installing some new
files to support the new functionality. Anyway, it's available on
my web site:
http://vaxn8.tripod.com/tcfs/NetBSD162/index.html
So stop starting and start! You know you want it. It's as easy as:
1) # cd /
2) # patch < /path/to/tcfs_normal.patch
3) # tar -xvf /path/to/tcfs_extra.tar.gz
4) Recompile your kernel and the new utils.
I'm working on making official patches, but it may not happen due to IP
concerns since I can't seem to reach the people who wrote it. Hmm.