[OpenAFS] packet sniffing and file content

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
13 Jul 2001 10:17:25 -0400


"fs setcrypt on" on the client will turn on file encryption.  It
only uses fcrypt(), which only provides token encryption, but
it is better than cleartext.

There is work underway to improve this.

-derek

David Boldt <dboldt@usgs.gov> writes:

> What options are available to protect file contents
> from packet sniffing?  Is this a concern?
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