Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:13:21 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gbde and geli - differences Message-ID: <20070321001321.5dea258f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070320231504.GB38069@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20070320190305.O29971@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20070320223619.6c18cd08@gumby.homeunix.com> <20070320231504.GB38069@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:15:04 +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:36:19PM +0000, RW wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:06:28 +0100 (CET) > > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > > > what they are. both works, both works right. > > > geli has more options. > > > > > > why there are both? what should i use to have better chance i > > > will be able to recover data after say 10 years knowing password? > > > > I presume it's to do with geli using OpenSSL libraries and so > > picking-up hardware acceleration where available. I think gdbe is > > being sidelined. > > geli uses the crypto(9) framework. Not sure about the OpenSSL > libraries. I'm probably mixing up crypto(9) and crypto(3) > > > > i need both encrypted partition and encrypted copies/DVDs. > > > > I'd be interested if anyone has a method for creating encrypted DVDs > > that still works. > > You can use a UFS filesystem on a DVD. In short: > - create an file with random characters the size of a DVD. > - use that as a vnode backed memory disk with mdconfig. > - initialize and attach that with geli. > - create a new filesystem on the geli device > - mount it. But how do you put that on a DVD-R or DVD+R?
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