RE: EVMS and LOOP-AES

["IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" <stuart@bh90210.net>]

Mr. Ruusu, et al.:

	I understand that loop-aes and cryptoloop are stacking device
technologies; however, I am also trying to ferment a plan to implement
everything cohesively.

	Fair enough, I am game. I am going to try to devise a method to
make use of loop-aes, EVMS, and ReiserFS without the need for suggesting
that a new "code bureaucracy" be created for EVMS. Although I do know
that already the plan (from IBM) is to have such plug-ins, I do not
think people on the EVMS team have the experience with encryption to
write such code.

	That being said, I would presume that the first layer should be
loop-aes, then EVMS, then ReiserFS; and that my /boot partition would
need to be an unencrypted, and outside the control of EVMS.

	I am also wondering if there would be a problem keeping ReiserFS
and EVMS as modules within the initrd also?

	Does this sound plausible?

	Since one person told me that, the issue I have had with using
DEVFS is related to initrd usage over ReiserFS (I plan to test this
later this week) I am willing to forgo the need for DEVFS for the
moment, since it would be a convenience at best right now. However,
eventually it would be my desire to also include the use DEVFS into the
mix.

	One other thought is if loop-aes technology were a plug-in for
EVMS would that not make having encrypted swap a much more simple
process?


Very Respectfully, 

Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG 
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Monday, April 01, 2002 1:56 AM



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