FC5 - Encrypted File Systems?

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi all,

I am trying to get a sense of the current status/plans for FC5 with 
respect to encrypted file systems.

I have read through the relevant section at the bottom of:

   http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5Future

along with the Bugzilla entries listed there and the current Release 
Notes for FC5-T2.

I also read the article at:

   http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/hal/

which is intriguing.

Is it not clear to me how to differentiate planned enhancements versus 
what has actually been implemented with respect to the changes for FC5.

I am presently using FC4 and have implemented encrypted partitions using 
dm-crypt/LUKS as per:

   http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php


My sense is that the plans include better integration with existing 
utilities providing more streamlined mounting (including boot time) of 
encrypted partitions.

Can anybody comment on the current status?

Thanks,

Marc Schwartz