Why Plan-9?
Dr. Evil
drevil at sidereal.kz
Mon Oct 22 13:36:02 PDT 2001
> > "Built-in crypto" is a big overstatement for OpenBSD. Unfortunately,
> > Win 2000 has more built-in crypto than OpenBSD does. Hint: Try to
> > create an encrypted FS on OpenBSD. Now try on Windows 2000.
>
> You trust Win2k's encryption? Are you CRAZY?
No and no.
> You're trusting a closed source product to do what it advertizes to do,
> every time? And does do encrypt the swap, does it? Excuse me -- professes
> to do.
I didn't say I trust it. I just said it's there, and it isn't there
in OpenBSD. Why doesn't OpenBSD support such a basic thing as an
encrypted FS? There's encryption built-in everywhere else except the
one place which makes all the difference if the machine itself is
stolen.
I think there are Two Great Encryption Tabboos: Encrypted voice and
encrypted FS. I would like to see OpenBSD support the encrypted FS in
its default kernel, thus making it the first OS with such a feature (I
don't count hacks such as loopback FS).
> Thanks for wetting my keyboard with beer via nasal passage.
Beer is precious. Don't waste it on your keyboard.
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