It seemed that people missed my point in this startup messages, why does
"Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2" appear WITHIN the partition check? it used to
appear above it, but when i modularized my floppy driver, the two
intermixed.
> ->one more question, is steganography and DES/IDEA crypt going to be
> ->incorporated into the kernel in 2.1.x, or are there problems with having
> ->cryptography in the kernel?
>
> I don't think Linus is in favour this this. As IMHO this can be entirely
> done in user space, and we don't need an big, bloated kernel. But even we
> do it, what would be use of it? There is already suppport for encrypted
> volumes, the secure rcp/telnet/ etc are alredy done by ssh stuff, and we
> are not going to crypt memory ;)
i agree that having the crypto operations in user space would be a good
idea, i have played with IDEA encryption patches, and there is a noticable
slowdown when the cryptography is occuring. but, shouldn't hooks be
present perhaps for encryption to be handled by a process, feeding the
loop device? perhaps and idea similar to the userfs idea, but for
devices, a process which could be setup to control the I/O for a device
such a process could feed a steganographed filesystem or an encrypted
filesystem to a device, which could then be mounted .. i had this idea
several months ago, but i did not have the free time to code it,
unfortunately i still dont have much free time :(
-- Gerald Britton <gbritton@whitman.gmu.edu> Walt Whitman Internet System Administrator