[OpenAFS] fs setcrypt and transarc

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
10 Apr 2003 10:49:01 -0400


Helmut Springer <delta@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> > Yep, although I wouldn't trust my long-term financial well-being
> > to the encryption in use.
> 
> Nicely put...what encryption is in use?  Any plans to offer a
> strong one as an option for those willing to burn more CPU?

A combination of weakened DES and 'fcrypt()'.  However there is work
to add support for native Krb5, which should hopefully enable support
for the Krb5 encryption types.... eventually.  (hopefully).

-derek

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