Hello,

Am 11.07.2017 10:52 nachm. schrieb "Florian Brandes" <[email protected]
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On 07/11/2017 10:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> I'm thinking of setting up perhaps something like a "Storage Qube", which
will have the storage drive permanently attached, and be in charge of
managing permissions and serving the folders to authorized VMs via…NFS?
SSHFS?

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I'm new to qubes, so excuse me if I may sound stupid, but wouldn't it be
easier to include your storage space in your overall qubes setup (maybe as
an LVM), so that you would just use your qubes and extend their personal
disk space? This way you could take advantage of the isolation provided by
qubes without the hassle of setting up a dedicated storage VM which would
also need to check permissions.

On the other hand you could probably set up a storage VM and serve the
files via NFS on a IP basis. Since every qube has a unique IP address you
could make sure that no other qube except the one you permit has access to
a specific storage folder.


One idea that came to my mind:
- setup a "storage qube" which serves as a NFS Server

- create exports in separate folders which can only be accessed by
dedicated IPs (from the AppVMs)

- as an additional Layer of security you could use encfs (with maybe some
symlinks) in the AppVMs, so that the date is decrypted from the view of an
AppVM but encrypted from the view of the Storage Qube.

I guess it should be possible to script something where the decryption key
is stored locally in the AppVM (Assuming that the data would be unencrypted
in the AppVM without a "Storage Qube".

Would this work for you?

- PhR

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