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Date:      Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:08:16 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        Freebsd-security@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Encrypted volume - how?
Message-ID:  <20060122230816.GC7703@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <43D409B8.6070704@meijome.net>
References:  <43D409B8.6070704@meijome.net>

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under=20
> Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem=
=20
> which can then be mounted in any mount point.
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> I know I can use GELI in FreeBSD 6 - as I understand, it performs the=20
> encryption at the partition level (the whole partition is encrypted).=20
> I'd like to be able to simply unmount my 'secure volume', and be able to=
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> back it up as a whole, or move it to another computer without having to=
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> repartition the destination. I think GELI wouldn't be good for this.

GELI or GBDE are probably what you're looking for, you just need to use
mdconfig to create a vnode (file) backed disk image which you will
encrypt and then create a file system on.

-- Brooks

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