Re: New release of CFS Unix encrypting file system available

[Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>]

> What happens to hard links?
> 
> mkdir foo bar
> CFS_set_directory_key -directory ./foo -key foo-key
> CFS_set_directory_key -directory ./bar -key bar-key

This isn't how it works.  You "attach" an encrypted directory to a
virtual namespace into which you write (and read) the cleartext.  It's
similar to mounting a file system.

> cp /etc/passwd ./foo/test1
> ln ./foo/footest ./bar/bartest
> cmp ./foo/footest ./bar/bartest

Hard links don't work across different "attached" directories (just as
they don't work across different file systems).

-matt