From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 15:37:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A461065671; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:37:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (duane.dbq.yournetplus.com [65.124.230.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13CB8FC0C; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 97BC43E2C20; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E32D3E2C1F; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:34:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill X-X-Sender: duane@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com To: Greg Larkin In-Reply-To: <48889B28.3010709@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: References: <20080718155624.GA2886@kokopelli.hydra> <20080718210657.36600379@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080718220154.5552427f@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080718220343.GA4953@kokopelli.hydra> <488118EE.8080101@FreeBSD.org> <48889B28.3010709@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk encryption; hidden containers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d.hill@yournetplus.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:37:39 -0000 On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Greg Larkin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Duane Hill wrote: > | On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Greg Larkin wrote: > | > |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > |> Hash: SHA1 > |> > |> Chad Perrin wrote: > |> | On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: > |> |> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 > |> |> RW wrote: > |> |> > |> |>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 > |> |>> Chad Perrin wrote: > |> |>> > |> |>>> My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor > |> |>>> GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. > |> |>> Are you talking about steganography? > |> |> 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. > |> |> > |> |> 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. > |> | > |> > |> Hi Chad, > |> > |> There is a beta version of the TrueCrypt 5.1a port out there. See: > |> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-May/048432.html. > |> > |> I tried it in a VMware virtual machine a couple of months ago and it > |> hung pretty consistently when copying files into the container. It's > |> entirely possible that the problem was related to the virtual > |> environment, so YMMV. > | > | What VMWare version were you using and what OS and version hosted the VM? > | > | I only ask as I have been searching for this myself. > | > | Currently, I am using a commercial product under Linux and Windoes > | called BestCrypt by Jetico (http://www.jetico.com). > | > | I have VMware installed currently under Windoes Vista. VMware version is > | 6.0.4-93057. I haven't had any issues thus far running a number of > | FreeBSD guest OSes. > | > | If your version is less than what I'm running, I would be willing to > | install and test. > | > > Hi Duane, > > I originally tested the TC port inside of VMware Player 1.0.5 running on > Win XP SP2. Do you think the hang could be caused by the version of > VMware software that hosts the VM? I've been thinking about purchasing > VMware Workstation, and if I do that, I'll test there as well. That could be. You could download the free VMware Server and try that first before purchasing VMware Workstation. It runs much the same. -d