Encryption is closer to being integrated into illumos than some may think -
https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/124. Thank Jorgen Lundman for the
port.

We need reviewers, especially those with a security background to take a
look at the port.

-Alek

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 8:13 AM Guenther Alka <[email protected]> wrote:

> hello Al
>
> I know lofi and have even implemented management of lofi encrypted pools
> in napp-it. But lofi is not a competitive solution to BSD or Linux disk
> encryption for file server use (Lofi is very good to backup a smaller
> amount of encrypted data to unsecure places) and by far not competitive
> to native Solaris encryption with encryption as a filesystem property
> where each filesystem can have its own key.
>
> As I know that Datto has implemented native ZFS encryption with supposed
> requests from all Open-ZFS platforms as a superiour solution, I hope
> that this will merge into Illumos soon, see
>
>
> https://www.datto.com/blog/zfs-encryption-will-hopefully-come-to-the-openzfs-community
> https://zfs.datto.com/slides/caputi.pdf
>
> The new EU law with fines up to 10 Mio Euro or 2 % of a worldwide volume
> of sales even on smaller infringements or 20 Mio Euro or 4% of a
> worldwide volume of sales for grave ones may require to force all
> efforts to implement technical precautionary measures for a state of the
> art data security.
>
> I expect a massive wave of adhortatory letters next year....
>
> Gea
> @napp-it.org
>
>
> Am 25.10.2017 um 13:35 schrieb Al Slater:
> > Hi Guenther,
> >
> > On 24/10/17 11:45, Guenther Alka wrote:
> >> Currently Illumos lacks this feature so it may be that this is a
> >> criteria that rules out Illumos based systems in various use cases in
> >> favour of Solaris or BSD/ZoL solutions with disk based encryption.
> > Illumos does have methods for disk encryption, just not ZFS native yet.
> >
> > See
> > https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/encrypting-zfs-pools-using-lofi-crypto
> > on how to encrypt ZFS volumes
> >
> >> What is the state of native ZFS encryption in Illumos - derived from
> >> Datto/ZoL as encryption moves from a nice to have to an absolutely
> >> mandatory feature then?

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