Re: Encrypting filenames

1999-07-12 Thread Frank O'Dwyer
Steve Hawkinson wrote: Also does anybody know of an encrypted filesystem that encrypts the names of files, besides CFS. Presumably any UNIX style filesystem would automatically provide this, since a directory is essentially a file. Some filesystems, however, allow for renaming a file without

Re: Encrypting filenames

1999-07-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:00 PM 7/10/99 -0500, Steve Hawkinson wrote: Does anybody have any ideas on what would be a good algorithm for encrypting filenames? I would like for the alogorithm to do compression also. CFS uses an algorithm that lengthens the filename, thereby shortening the maximum allowed length

Re: Encrypting filenames

1999-07-11 Thread Kevin E. Fu
the model of NFS RPCs, you would basically synthesize a LOOKUP RPC through a few READ RPCs. When I last checked, CFS does not use its own low-level file structures for the sake of portability. Hope that helps. -Kevin Fu Does anybody have any ideas on what would be a good algorithm for encrypting

Re: Encrypting filenames

1999-07-11 Thread Steve Hawkinson
From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Hawkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Encrypting filenames At 04:00 PM 7/10/99 -0500, Steve Hawkinson wrote: Does anybody have any ideas on what would be a good algorithm for encrypting filenames? I would like