You are talking about the crypto file system. It does use NFS to loopback and mount the encrypted directory in the localhost. The encryption is on a per mounted directory basis (so its not good for multi-user systems) and does not have compression. a1 On Thu, 11 May 1995, Lee J. Silverman wrote: > I'll feel terrible if I screw this up, but I think his name is Matt Blaze > and I *think* he works for AT&T) wrote a secure filesystem that uses NFS > on the local machine to interact with an encrypted filesystem. I do not > remember if the encryption is done on a per-user or per partition basis, > but in any case, if you're really interested in keeping someone with > physical access to the machine from getting at your files, you could use > an encrypted filesystem. Does anyone know if that system also does > compression? > > As you can tell, my information is sketchy. I'm sure someone with > more information will post and tell us where we can learn more. > > > Lee Silverman lee@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/users/lee/ > Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, > with interstices between the intersections. -- S. Johnson >