Regarding security, the ERIS spec describes some of these issues,
but I doubt the ERIS solution is compatible.

https://eris.codeberg.page/spec/#name-security-considerations

There is an ERIS 9P server but it's read-only and stores blocks in
its own database.
https://eris.codeberg.page/erishell.1.html#srv-

Excerpts from Calvin via 9fans's message of January 10, 2026 2:08 am:
>> On Friday, 9 January 2026, at 6:14 PM, Calvin wrote:
>>
>>> There are many security and privacy holes in venti's design that should be 
>>> fixed. Anyone with access to a venti system has, in essence, full 
>>> permissions to all data in every file system stored in the system. The only 
>>> current practical mitigation is to simply prevent access to the venti in 
>>> the first place, and only expose a file system on top of it, such as 
>>> fossil, but this can greatly reduce the benefits of venti's deduplication.
>>
>> Indeed, venti is insecure. But it doesn't do 9p and it is only intended as a 
>> backing store for real servers. If the real server (eg. a fossil) is on the 
>> same machine, address of 127.1 is a solution. Imho also adresses in 
>> 168.x.x.x nets are quite safe. This way it is not exposed outside your realm.
> 
> Sorry i was quoting Noam there, I am interested in proposed solutions.

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