By Bryan Jacobson, Linux Technology Center.

Tyler Hicks (from our team) recently attended the 5/25-29 Ubuntu Developers Summit for Karmic Koala in Barcelona, Spain. Some of Tyler’s observations on Security topics:

  • There are quite a few eCryptfs users out there and they are generally happy with the version shipped in Jaunty. Most were using the encrypted home feature, but some wanted more flexibility and had custom setups.
  • eCryptfs encrypted swap is on the roadmap for Karmic.
  • Michael Rooney has been working on graphical applications to compliment some of the eCryptfs userspace tools that are currently bound to the command line.
  • Tyler held an eCryptfs roadmap talk about future eCryptfs features: eCryptfs on top of popular network filesystems, improved key management, and asking for someone interested in completing the eCryptfs GPG key module.

Some general observations from Tyler:

  • Ubuntu would like to be the premier guest available in Amazon EC2.
  • Ubuntu users will soon have a daily build of the virtualization stack available, which is a big win for both the upstream developers and the users.
  • Dustin Kirkland http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/ gave a talk on leveraging the cloud for data center power savings.
  • The Ubuntu kernel team committed to removing non-upstream kernel code that no one is using anymore.

See the whole story on Tyler blog at: http://blog.tyhicks.net