On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:18 PM, freeman <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 2014-02-2017:10, SandeepKsinha : > > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:27 PM, freeman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> 2014-02-20 15:31, Rishi Agrawal : >> >> Hi, >> >> I went through your readme. Some questions. >> >> 1. How are you encrypting the files? Is it done by the encryptfs or >> you are doing it in your module. >> >> 2. How can the user selectively encrypt the files in the system. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Rishi Agrawal >> >> Hi Rishi, >> >> Sorry about the fuzziness. >> >> #1 I plan to do the encryption in my module, but encrypting >> functions aren't added to it yet. As I mentioned in readme, >> module now just simply pass-through operations to the original >> file system. >> >> #2 It seems that the user cannot select specific file to encrypt >> inside one directory :-( . However he may specify a directory >> then we can encrypt all the file inside it. Namely, the granularity >> is directory, not file. Besides, subdirectory is not supported at >> present. >> >> > Why does it even matter - inode vs directory? Is it because you store > the encryption metadata in the dirent and not the inode? > > >> >> Regards >> Freeman >> >> > > -- > Regards, > Sandeep. > > “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.” > > Hi Sandeep, > > Actually I haven't got that far... > However as I planed it, I don't want involve the user too much－ > just to keep simple. I plan to build a safe box, and people throw > personal things into it. That's all. > I want to use it with Android devices. Will complex implementation > build barrier for ebedded system? > Any suggestions? > > Not really. Just try to keep the implementation close enough to the use-cases you want to target. Make is user-centric rather than developer. All the best! > Regards > Freeman Zhang > -- Regards, Sandeep. “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.”
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