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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:20:32 -0700 (MST)
From:      "David G. Andersen" <dga@pobox.com>
To:        adam@algroup.co.uk (Adam Laurie)
Cc:        matrix@ipform.ru (Artem Koutchine), security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Encrypted networked filesystem needed
Message-ID:  <200101121820.LAA13560@faith.cs.utah.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A5F4565.F15136F4@algroup.co.uk> from "Adam Laurie" at Jan 12, 2001 05:56:53 PM

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You'd probably like SFS.  It's terribly useful.

http://www.fs.net/

  -Dave

Lo and behold, Adam Laurie once said:
> 
> Artem Koutchine wrote:
> > 
> > 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)?
> 
> never tried tunnelling it, but CFS works quite nicely as a crypted
> filesystem.
> 
> cheers,
> Adam
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