addition to the FAQ about cryptographic filesystem (question 9.9)

platanthera platanthera at web.de
Thu Jun 3 22:19:55 UTC 2004


On Thursday 03 June 2004 22:44, Marco Molteni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I aws reading the FreeBSD FAQ and it says:
>
>     9.9. Is there a cryptographic filesystem for FreeBSD?
>     Yes; see the security/cfs port.
>
> I would add some text referring to 5.x GEOM gbde. A quick example:
>
>     FreeBSD 5.x comes with a GEOM based disk encryption kernel facility
>     called gbde. See gbde(4), gbde(8) and a tutorial paper somewhere
>     on the net.

i'd suggest to include references to the according handbook section
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html

and to that background paper
http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/bsdcon-03.gbde.paper.pdf

thanks
;-)

>
> marco



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