[H-GEN] Why bother with root when you can take the box?

[Greg Black]

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Speaking about encrypted filesystems, has anybody played with
Matt Blaze's CFS?  Here's the package info from the FreeBSD
ports:

    $ cat /usr/ports/security/cfs/pkg-descr 
    This is CFS, Matt Blaze's Cryptographic File System.  It provides
    transparent encryption and decryption of selected directory trees.
    It is implemented as a user-level NFS server and thus does not
    require any kernel modifications.

    For an overview of how to use it, read "${PREFIX}/share/doc/cfs/notes.ms"
    and the manual pages.  There is a paper describing CFS at:

	ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/cfs.ps

I've never wanted it, but I'd imagine that it was worth a look,
especially given Matt Blaze's reputation.  I haven't checked,
but I'd guess that it would work on Linux too.

Cheers, Greg

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