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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:02:10 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@ipform.ru>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Encrypted networked filesystem needed 
Message-ID:  <200101121803.f0CI34u10870@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:31:03 %2B0300." <00aa01c07cbd$71209dc0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> 

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> Hello!
> 
> I need a networked filesystem which tranfers files  from
> host to host in encrypted manner or can be tunnelled
> over SSL (say, using stunnel).
> 
> NFS cannot be tunneled even when run in TCP mode because
> of rpc stuff
> 
> I also heard of and have read about AFS and CODA, but it seems
> like they do not support encryption, but maybe they could be tunneled.
> 
> Samba CAN be tunnelled but, IMHO, Samba plain 
> sux and we use it only for windows boxes which need to access unix
> files.
> 
> So, is there a file system which support encryption and can AFS or CODA
> be tunneled? Can AFS and CODA even substitute NFS (in terms of 
> functionality and convinices)?

Have you considered IPSec?  Two such solutions exist with FreeBSD, KAME 
IPSec that comes with FreeBSD and the pipsecd port.


Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC

In message <00aa01c07cbd$71209dc0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>, "Artem 
Koutchine" writes



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