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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:58:46 -0600
From:      Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
To:        Azim <quakerdoomer@fmguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig
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Does it need to be an ISO file? i'm just curious why you can't use a
UFS file that's then geli encrypted?


If it does need to be an iso, simply make the same UFS filesystem (2k
blocksize) of 700MB and geli encrypt that.  It'll still burn to CD,
but won't be a CD Filesystem.


Does this help?

On 6/3/09, Azim <quakerdoomer@fmguy.com> wrote:
> Because I need something like TrueCrypt on FreeBSD. Decrypting the whole
> ISO file first will make the situation insecure and definitely will kill
> the purpose. An accidental reboot alongwith loss of the system/disk
> while having the iso in a decrypted form can cause problems.
> I need decryption on the fly, without making an extra copy of the same
> file.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:13 +0200, "Ruben de Groot" <mail25@bzerk.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Why not decrypt it first?
>>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:32:40PM +0300, Azim typed:
>> > Does FreeBSD or any BSD/OS have "mount -o encryption" support ?
>> > I want to pipe aespipe and mount an encrypted iso. I have already
>> > checked on FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 that loop option isn't available, so I am
>> > sticking to mdconfig and vnconfig on old versions.
>> >
>> > If not then,
>> > Is it possible to pipe aespipe with mdconfig
>> > How do you on-the-fly-mount an Encrypted ISO under FreeBSD ?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > QD
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