From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 22:09:27 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 803801065672 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:09:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-38.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-38.bluehost.com [69.89.20.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A4A78FC16 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:09:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 32687 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jul 2008 22:09:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2008 22:09:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Gn8tsdUTfZuoopFlEKU6oGsAZY1mwiwb82LjekkkXvNvBRkAlUuMy2j5Wy/VwrO6x+PWdGt4gQaMLgRL2aTykB/3S5X5/UZQ48Y+Rzu1phAtDthQkoSrfbGS/uaDY5pE; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJy8i-0002zz-T6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:09:25 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:03:43 -0600 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:03:43 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080718220343.GA4953@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080718155624.GA2886@kokopelli.hydra> <20080718210657.36600379@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080718220154.5552427f@gumby.homeunix.com.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080718220154.5552427f@gumby.homeunix.com.> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: disk encryption; hidden containers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:09:27 -0000 --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 > RW wrote: >=20 > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 > > Chad Perrin wrote: > >=20 > > > My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor > > > GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. =20 > >=20 > > Are you talking about steganography? >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Alan Perlis: "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing." --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiBEz8ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUCLwCgmL3Q6ZD3KE5/oy/4euXATe/j L0kAoNyEFCyrc6H8DEi0eQCHXjGQAzFF =QIki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--