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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:53:32 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Florent Peterschmitt <florent@peterschmitt.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3
Message-ID:  <CAOtMX2hdbY52Wh=B=ByrX7BM%2B-hHNnbtKG9S_uMBCLT5pEE-gw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5225D49B.2080807@peterschmitt.fr>
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Florent Peterschmitt
<florent@peterschmitt.fr> wrote:
> Le 03/09/2013 14:14, Emre =C7amalan a =E9crit :
>> Hi,
>> I want to encrypt some disk on my server with Zfs encryption property bu=
t it is not available.
>
> "That would require ZFS v30. As far as I am aware Oracle has not
> released the code under CDDL."

Oracle's ZFS encryption is crap anyway.  It works at the filesystem
level, not the pool level, so a lot of metadata is in plaintext; I
don't remember how much exactly.  It's also highly vulnerable to
watermarking attacks.

>
> From http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D30036
>
> So you can use ZFS pools on GELI volumes, it can be a good start. I not
> play with it.

GELI is full-disk encryption.  It's far superior to ZFS encryption.

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