File encryption: bdes or gpg

Sergey Zaharchenko doublef at tele-kom.ru
Wed May 26 23:48:29 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:02:13PM -0400,
 Simon Bates probably wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> >Another option that you didn't even bring up:
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html 
> 
> Right now I am running 4.9 but upgrading to 5 is definitely a 
> possibility. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

The security/vncrypt port, which works on 4.x, supplies a kernel module
which can present an encrypted filesystem image just like regular vnode
disk, except that it does transparent {en|de}cryption.
 
-- 
DoubleF
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
		-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
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