From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 22:51:19 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 791491065677 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616DA8FC15 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 68-189-244-97.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.244.97] helo=Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KJyQj-0008fz-0A; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:28:02 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E7C221AC73; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <488118EE.8080101@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:27:58 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, perrin@apotheon.com References: <20080718155624.GA2886@kokopelli.hydra> <20080718210657.36600379@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080718220154.5552427f@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080718220343.GA4953@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20080718220343.GA4953@kokopelli.hydra> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) Cc: Subject: Re: disk encryption; hidden containers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:51:19 -0000 -----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. Best regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.sourcehosting.net/ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIgRju0sRouByUApARAv+YAJ9tD3AZfXeFjJlwX3jdAu37obGAxQCeMcwL Xo+7frfIpY05QUfrYD1geGw= =ebWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----