cvs commit: src/sbin/geom/class/eli geom_eli.c

[Nate Lawson]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> pjd         2006-06-05 21:40:54 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/geom/class/eli  geom_eli.c 
>   Log:
>   Userland bits of geli(8) data authentication.
>   Now, encryption algorithm is given using '-e' option, not '-a'.
>   The '-a' option is now used to specify authentication algorithm.
>   
>   Supported by:   Wheel Sp. z o.o. (http://www.wheel.pl)
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.11      +29 -15    src/sbin/geom/class/eli/geom_eli.c

Excellent!  One of my longstanding complaints has been that no block 
encryption software supported integrity, only privacy.

http://www.root.org/talks/Usenix_20040629.pdf

As far as the flag change goes, won't this make it difficult to MFC this 
new feature later?

-- 
Nate