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From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com>
To: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
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Subject: Re: help needed - GBDE mounts on top of FUSE sshfs (fails)
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christian Laursen wrote:

> Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> writes:
> 
> > Any comments ?  I really want an offsite encrypted volume.  I have the
> > offsite from rsync.net, and the transport is encrypted via sshfs, but I am
> > paranoid and do not want them (or anyone) to see the contants, so I want
> > to just upload a single 2gig file and make a GBDE on it.
> 
> You could probably use geom_gate for it and forward the connection from the
> local ggatec to the remote ggated via your ssh connection.


Can you elaborate, or point me to a document that describes using
geom_gate ?  My only exposure to these things was with the GBDE HOWTO:

http://0x06.sigabrt.de/howtos/freebsd_encrypted_image_howto.html

Thanks.