In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "ALeine" writes: >1. Introducing a sysctl variable to control how often (after how many writes) >the random key is regenerated: > >kern.geom.bde.random_key_regeneration_cycle > >The way it works now would correspond to the value being 1 with >regeneration happening on every write. Setting this higher would >improve the performance and people could decide for themselves >what value fits their needs.
I don't really think you would gain any performance, but I am open to benchmarks proving me wrong. >2. Backporting to 4.x - this has more or less come to the point that >I would rather write the whole thing from scratch, similar to vncrypt >(ports/security/vncrypt), only implementing the main principles found >in GBDE. I wouldn't bother. 4.x is nearing the EOL and you wouldn't get much useful lifetime out of it. It wouldn't be too much work to do it however. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"