News: iXsystems Debuts Exclusive ZFS Encryption

Anyone have more information on how they did this? Did they integrate it into ZFS itself as a feature flag? Is it just a well-integrated/pre-configured GELI setup? Is it something else?

I haven't been able to find much information yet on the details of the implementation.

I've heard through the grapevine it's a ZFS feature flag, but haven't been able to confirm it yet. If it is, will be interesting to see if/when they release it to the OSS community.
 
Its only GELI full disk encryption, nothing new here, move on ;)
http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#ZFS_Encryption

Beginning with 8.3.1, FreeNAS® supports GELI full disk encryption when creating ZFS volumes. It is important to understand the following when considering whether or not encryption is right for your FreeNAS® system:
This is not the encryption method used by Oracle ZFSv30. That version of ZFS has not been open sourced and is the property of Oracle.
This is full disk encryption and not per-filesystem encryption. The underlying drives are first encrypted, then the pool is created on top of the encrypted devices.
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