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Re: TEST

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Fire Dragon wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:15:38AM +0000, James Stevenson wrote:
> 
> I know the current kernel is incapable of handling encryption (yes I know
> about kerneli.org and the patches there...) but I'm kind of wondering how
> much trouble it would be to actually add such a feature.

have no idea, but if you can encrypt filesystems, why then not a swapfile
(yes file), improving on swapfile performance would be greatly
appreciapted by people anyway. You could also look into creating an
encrypted swap as you are doing now, by patching your kernel first with
kerneli.org patches.

> Then again without encrypted file systems this is a bit pointless...
> 

Those are at kerneli.org, but don't expect them to be added to the
mainstream kernels just yet. Apart from coding style and so on (which
could be a reason), Linus won't let it happen just yet, but eventually it
will, so just go help them and it will be in the mainstream kernels soon
enough.

> ttylz

Hope this helps,
	Lennie.


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