From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 12 16:20:10 2009 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 DF45110657B6 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EAC8FC20 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9CGK9kX077970; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:20:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B768DBA8C; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:20:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:20:08 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Greg Morell Message-ID: <20091012162008.GA17456@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <954220.56717.qm@web46415.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <954220.56717.qm@web46415.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mountable encrypted file? What to use? 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: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:20:11 -0000 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:33:40AM -0700, Greg Morell wrote: > Since TrueCrypt doesn't work on FreeBSD, I'm wondering what you'd recomme= nd for this: >=20 > I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable fil= es. >=20 > Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup, but not worr= y if I lose the USB key since it's just an encrypted file. But when on a c= omputer, I can mount it as a volume. >=20 > On OS X, I use encrypted 'dmg' volumes. >=20 > On Linux and Windows, I use TrueCrypt. >=20 > What should I use on FreeBSD? You should use GELI, see geli(8). It can encrypt complete disks, partitions= or bsdlabels. If you want the encrypted stuff encased in a file, you should us= e md(4) to create a vnode-backed memory disk, and encrypt that with GELI. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkrTVzgACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUrOACdGva/WneVqh1c17WbhG1J12xv kFAAn3SHz45N5N5YVlEzDvRza39LjiEu =7B6v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--