[Samba] Encryption

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:54:08PM +0000, Dan Lenski wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:29:38 -0400, simo wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:05 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >> 
> >> Reviewing the docs, this tool requires Samba 3.2 or later on both the
> >> client and server sides. I'm therefore assuming that it's not
> >> compatible with a contemporary Windows fileserver: can you confirm
> >> this? Does anyone know if NetApp supports such encryption?
> > 
> > It is an extension created by the Samba Team as part of unix extensions,
> > and at the moment the only client that implements it is smbclient. Not
> > even the in kernel cifs driver implements it. And we have no knowledge
> > of any other implementer adopting it yet.
> 
> Does anyone know a time-frame for inclusion of transport encryption in 
> the kernel CIFS driver?  I'm really looking forward to this feature!

Steve, Jeff.... ping ? :-)