Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

["Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat@orangeseeds.org>]

Another thing I forgot. You mentioned dedicated LUKS partitions as an
example solution. I wonder if you know about the `tomb` and `ctmg`
projects which more or less implement those features as commandline tool
wrappers.

Tomb is a simple shell-script wrapper around cryptsetup to easily create
and manage loop-mounted LUKS partitions:

http://tomb.dyne.org/

An example use of this for notmuch would be the `pass-tomb` extension to
the `pass` password manager, which uses tomb to hide password entries
when not in use:

https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb

CTMG is basically the same thing but written by Donenfeld instead of
Jaromil:

https://git.zx2c4.com/ctmg/about/

Both require root to run. In both cases, my primary concern would be how
to manage the size of the LUKS partition just right: it shouldn't take
up space needlessly, but then it needs to expand when new space is
needed. As far as I know, none of those tools elegantly solve that
problem, except maybe the new ext4 encryption system...

Thanks again for this precious patchset, I hope it gets rolled in soon!
0.26 will be even more amazing it gets shipped with this.

A.

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