Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:03:43 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk encryption; hidden containers Message-ID: <20080718220343.GA4953@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20080718220154.5552427f@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080718155624.GA2886@kokopelli.hydra> <20080718210657.36600379@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080718220154.5552427f@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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--5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 > RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: >=20 > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 > > Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > >=20 > > > My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor > > > GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. =20 > >=20 > > Are you talking about steganography? >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > It would be a start for geli to be able to encrypt its metadata. So, are those basically my choices -- either wait for GBDE or GELI to acquire that capability, or write it myself (which is not something I'm prepared to do right now)? Bummer. Well . . . or wait for something else like TrueCrypt to get ported to FreeBSD, I suppose. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Alan Perlis: "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing." --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiBEz8ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUCLwCgmL3Q6ZD3KE5/oy/4euXATe/j L0kAoNyEFCyrc6H8DEi0eQCHXjGQAzFF =QIki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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