From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 23:16:31 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 AD73F1065672 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:31 +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 852BA8FC12 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CAA0C3E2C20; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DD63E2C1F; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill X-X-Sender: duane@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com To: Greg Larkin In-Reply-To: <488118EE.8080101@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> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: perrin@apotheon.com, 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: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:31 -0000 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. -d