Re: Please /dev/null html-only mail rather than sending it out on this list

2004-04-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 18 April 2004 17:26, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Hi, > > That a lot of spam has been coming through this list is one thing. That the > list daemon threatens to cut people from the list whose systems refuse to > accept some of the spam is another. > > Might I suggest a simple category of stuff

Re: "Permission denied" during ls

2004-03-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:54, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > do you see anything related in the syslog? > what does reiserfsck --check say? It told him to run rebuild-tree, which apparently worked. I'm going to ssh in once the nameserver is back up (separate problem). phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u

"Permission denied" during ls

2004-03-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
A few months ago I set up a mail server for my ISP and put the maildirs on a separate disk formatted in reiserfs. I just got a call saying that he's getting "permission denied" errors doing "ls" on the directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# vdir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Will Reisefs have "undo"?

2003-06-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday 14 June 2003 14:38, Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > > Are there any plans to add undo capabilities to reiserfs? Most modern > desktops have a trash can. Am I the only one who has idea that this is a > crappy workaround for something that should be in the filesystem. > > I am aware that thi

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-04-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 04 April 2003 13:45, Hans Reiser wrote: > Edward Shushkin wrote: > > On the > >other hand, on the last seminar we made a conclusion to check key > > validness in oredr to avoid a possible security hole when read() first > > looks for uptodate (decrypted!) pages in memory before reading en

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-04-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Properly applied, you can even leverage it further - for instance, if your > backup process doesn't have the key tokens, you can safely let it have > access to all the files - it can read the 127 meg of data to back it up in > a bitwise mann

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-04-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:22:11 EST, Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > What's LSM? This sounds like it can do what I want with rsync. Is it > > possible > > > > to add a new key token to init

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-04-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:21, Hans Reiser wrote: > I think it is essential to the task that apps not be aware of keys. Indeed. The reiser4-specific syscall should insert or delete a key into the database; to open a file you use the generic open() syscall, which passes the filename to reiser4,

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-03-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:12, Hendrik Visage wrote: > In this whole discussion I'm still missing some references to research > papers on this technique, as it still sounds to me like security by > obscurity. I didn't find this in research papers. I thought of it in the bathtub. The credential co

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-03-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday 29 March 2003 13:17, Edward Shushkin wrote: > Any collision can be used by attacker for access to remained decrypted data > in memory, so you should assign the *whole* output of any crypto-stable > hash function (20 bytes for SHA1). If you use 19 bytes for ID, there is no > any guarante

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-03-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday 29 March 2003 13:17, Edward Shushkin wrote: > Any collision can be used by attacker for access to remained decrypted data > in memory, so you should assign the *whole* output of any crypto-stable > hash function (20 bytes for SHA1). If you use 19 bytes for ID, there is no > any guarante

Re: Reiser4 crypto-compression design

2003-03-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:35, Hubert Chan wrote: > A related, but different question, which may have already been answered > by Edward's document: can a directory be encrypted, so that only a user > with the password can list its contents? The way that's done in CFS is that the filenames are s

Re: Reiser4 crypto-compression design

2003-03-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:52, Edward Shushkin wrote: > When user creates a crypto-file, the file system asks for a secret > key and calculates its id (128-bit word) which supposed to be stored > in file's stat-data on disk. > When user opens crypto-file, the file system asks for a secret key,

Re: help recover filesystem corrupted by failing ide controller

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 14 March 2003 21:29, Manuel Krause wrote: > If you already did a --rebuild-tree with that _old_ (~2years!!!) > reiserfsck I pray you have a backup somewhere. If I couldn't cat a single file without the cat hanging, how could I make a backup? > Try the latest -pre-release > ftp://ftp.na

Encryption plugin

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
Will it be possible to have several directories in a filesystem, each with its own encryption key, and access each of those directories unencrypted only while a certain process is running? A friend of mine would like to provide a backup service and with that sort of encryption they can trust us

help recover filesystem corrupted by failing ide controller

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
Wednesday evening, my computer started giving weird errors. ls in a busy directory showed lots of garbled filenames. Within an hour it was unbootable. I called a friend and we went and swapped drives around; the computer wouldn't recognize either drive, and he suspected a motherboard problem. T