From: rarachel@edison.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-03-10 21:55:49 UTC
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From: rarachel@edison.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 13:55:49 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Mac SecureDrive status report...
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Okay, so far I have all the information I need. The secure drive
for the Mac will require the user to have a fairly optimized drive
to start off with. Why? Because I've wasted way too much time
trying to figure out how to work with the damn extents...
I don't have any driver code written yet. The reason for this is
that I'm not ready to risk loosing my hard drive until I have two
full backups. :-)
This is a two part project as you know. The 1st project is a freeware
encryption only driver... The 2nd part is an encryption/compression
driver. I've written most of the routines for the 2nd project to do
the free/full space management and caches. Once I write the freeware
program I will have a working driver (I hope) and will be able to
implement the compressing driver.
I do plan to make some money off of this and give Stacker, X2 and E-disk
a bit of competition, so I figure somewhere around the $30-$50 range for
the compressing/encrypting driver...
I'm going to make the compressing driver have a possibly self-optimizing
when idle routine, but I may decide to drop this if it takes too long...
Let me know if you have any suggestions/etc.
NOTE: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE!!! Send your replies to
rarachel@photon.poly.edu. The reason for this is that there's
some trouble with Photon right now, and I am using another
machine to get my mail :-I Hopefully this will be fixed soon...
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