Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 08:42:33PM +0000, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> > https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/transparent-cgd/
> > 
> > This page describes limitations of cgdroot.kmod.
> > 
> > In my opinion, aes-xts should be added to efi bootloader and paramsfile
> > should be merged into boot.cfg.
> 
> If you aren't doing this, it's a *really* good beginner project.
> Perhaps adjust the wiki page to be less exploratory and more with do
> X,Y,Z and add it to the GSoC-able list?

Adding a cgd layer on top of ffs code in libsa isn't straightforward
but it should be doable. It's also not clear to me how to pass a
raw encryption key from the bootloader to the kernel but I'm not very
familiar with that code. Overall it would be a good GCoC project.

-- 
Alex