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Subject: Re: disk encryption; hidden containers
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100
RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600
> Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> 
> > My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor
> > GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities.  
> 
> Are you talking about steganography?

Sorry, I guess you're talking about volumes hidden in the unused space
on a filesystem. I don't think there's anything. I'm not sure
what the status of truecrypt is, I've heard some talk about it running
on freebsd eventually. 

It would be a start for geli to be able to encrypt its metadata.