From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190603280723x11ba4c6cped865dfb05017f0e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:23:41 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9? In-Reply-To: <509071940603280659v1b424162kf483be81cd290035@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <8df4e392c1e8408151bd27b64b524d52@quanstro.net> <509071940603280659v1b424162kf483be81cd290035@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 23ccb27e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ozinferno is based on an encrypted filesystem - the last work i did with boyd. i'll try and get a release together when i'm less ill. brucee On 3/29/06, Anthony Sorace wrote: > Erik Quanstrom wrote: > // i think a better route would be to build s/mime compatable signatures > // and encryption into upas/fs and upas/marshal so applications without > // a need to know would not have to know. > > i'm not really sure what you mean by that. certainly we shouldn't > require the content-producing programs (like, say, 'cat') to know > anything about encryption, but that idea's already totally foreign to > plan 9 (cat --enable-encryption-with-aes-cbc?). > > having s/mime in upas would be wonderful, but doesn't fully address > the needs being discussed. i want to be able to store files on disk > securely, including across platforms. for that, i want a stand-alone > program (hopefully, one which could then be used in upas). >