Re: crypto (Re: Google Summer of Code idea)

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Magnus Eriksson wrote:
> 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...)

totally forgot about this.. (have been essentially dead for 1y)

nice. there you go.

personally, I could care less about the interface.. just throwing a 
shower-idea out there :)

but - if one were to work that into a devfs interface and munge the 
userspace tools and I don't really see what is all together that much 
different than what I mentioned..

there's really only 2 steps here:

1) key -> memory-keyblock : mapping : raw-disk-device
2) data <-> cipher <-> disk

not too convoluted really. the tough part is splicing it into the
kernel without crashing your computer :)