From: Ray Arachelian <sunder@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 05:53:26 +0800
To: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: What remains to be done.
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960708205907.28245G-100000@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960709115634.3387E-100000@dorsai>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Ray Arachelian wrote:
> 
> > I'm constantly switching between NT and 95 and have them installed on the 
> > same drive.  Would be cool to have some low level driver to encryption 
> > from the Master Boot Record for example to get around unfriendly OS's- but 
> > then NT won't respect the BIOS calls, 95 in 32 bit mode won't, Linux sure 
> > as hell wont, etc....
> 
> Linux, however, does have the cfs (crypted filesystem), which will let you
> do the same thing. Supposedly lets you plug in your own encryption method
> and all that... Also allows different users to encrypt with different
> passwords, and such (or just the root user encrypt the whole partition).
> Find the web page for more info.

Not quite what I'm looking for I'm afraid.  What I want is a big 
partition that's encrypted, but accessible from Windows NT, 95, and 
Linux.  In other words, I need an encrypted drive device driver for all 
of the above operating systems that's compatible across them.

So when I'm running NT, I can use the drive, when I'm running 95 I can 
use the drive, when I'm running Linux I can use the drive.  Now linux has 
a nice UMS which lets me access DOS drives.  If that were merged with - 
say SecureDrive, and if SecureDrive were rewritten as a 32 bit VxD 
minidriver for 95, and if there were a version of the same for NT, >THAT< 
would be cool. :)

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