Hi Hans, I took a brief look at the Java patch & it does not look like it should give you much trouble to port to C# by hand utilizing the framework encryption classes (disclaimer: I don't have any experience with encryption in the framework).
As the Java patch is a new implementation of FSDirectory, I'd suggest stepping through and understanding the current FSDirectory implementation (SimpleFSDirectory) in Lucene.Net as a good place to start, especially the unit tests. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Hans Merkl [mailto:h...@hmerkl.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:45 PM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: How hard would it be to implement an encrypted Directory class? Hi, I have to secure my index and I think an encrypted index would be best. I saw this contribution https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2228?page=com.atlassian.jira.pl ugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel for Java Lucene and I wonder how hard it would be to implement something similar for Lucene.Net. I am willing to spend some time on it but I don't have enough understanding of the code base to determine if it's feasible to do. It seems it should be possible with the use of the System.Security.Cryptography namespace but I am not sure. What do you think?
