From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 11:17:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1433D37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D0343F75 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from manfred.lotz@web.de) Received: from [213.23.30.74] (helo=wizard.sanskrit.local.net) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.95 #31) id 18lZiU-0000i8-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:17:14 +0100 Received: from localhost.sanskrit.local.net (localhost.sanskrit.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by wizard.sanskrit.local.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3C131120 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:17:12 +0100 (CET) From: Manfred Lotz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap / file system encryption Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:17:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3E53160C.5060100@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <3E53160C.5060100@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302192017.12289.manfred.lotz@web.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:28, sweetleaf wrote: > Is it possible to encrypt the swap in freebsd? I am new to freebsd, > having used openbsd for sometime and was just wondering if this feature > is available in freebsd. I don't know if it is possible to encrypt swap. Even it would be possible you might experience bad performance. > I would also like to know if freebsd supports > encrypted file systems? There is an encrypted file system implemented as a user-level NFS server. You find it in /usr/ports/security/cfs/. There is a FreeBSD Diary article at http://www.freebsddiary.org/encrypted-fs.php which shows how to make it work. Manfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message