On 3/30/2012 6:54 AM, Thomas Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at disabling crypt on all of my Windows clients and noticed that 
> there's an extra option for them, versus *nix clients--auth.
> 
> With auth enabled, 'fs getcrypt' indicates that the security level is "data 
> integrity". I wasn't able to find any information about what this means in 
> the docs at the website nor in the release notes of the client (1.7.8).
> 
> Can someone explain what this setting does please? Just wondering if it's 
> encrypting communications while acquiring tokens ('auth') or providing some 
> kind of integrity checks to help avoid or catch data corruption ('data 
> integrity') or something else entirely.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> ~ Tom

The "fs setcrypt" options are "off, auth, on".

  off is no protection

  auth is data integrity protection

  on is data security protection (all traffic encrypted)




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