James C. McPherson ??: > Grant Zhang wrote: >> I agree with Mark. The point of porting many FOSS packages into Open >> Solaris is to make people comfortable enough in using the very same >> tools in Open Solaris. >> >> Back to this case, Areca is a backup utility, not a crypto utility. >> Encryption is just one feature provided by Areca, although as you >> observed, not very strong encryption. It is possible to use Areca to >> back up the files totally unencrypted, which is not uncommon in >> personal backup space. For folks with strong security needs, >> encrypt(1) or mac(1) can still be used on the backups. >> >> Areca is an active project and a lot of people are using it on >> Windows and Linux. Please don't reject it so we have one less choice >> on OpenSolaris. > > Please don't try to ignore the valid architectural > and security concerns which Darren and others have > raised already. > > If this Areca backup util is to be integrated, then > its crypto support should Do The Right Thing in OpenSolaris > rather than merely assume that whatever is being done > elsewhere is preferable. > > Oh, and has anybody informed the Areca project group that > their name conflicts with that of a company (Areca Technologies > Ltd of Taiwan) ? This is not the case.
David > > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
