zfsonlinux/zfs — Issue #494: ZFS Crypto support
Author: FransUrbo
Created: 2011-12-14 17:36:57+00:00
State: open

As of ZFS Pool Version 30, there is support for encryption. This part is unfortunatly closed source, so an opensource implementation would be required. That means it would probably not be compatible with the Solaris version 'but who cares' :).

Illumos is apparently working on this at https://www.illumos.org/projects/zfs-crypto. Source repository can be found at https://bitbucket.org/buffyg/illumos-zfs-crypto. Unfortunatly there is no changes since the fork from illumos-gate. Should ZoL start thinking about this or should we just take the back seat?

Don't know how big of a problem this would be, but 'copying' the way that LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) do it seems to be a good place to start.