Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:51:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Simon Bates <simon.bates@utoronto.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File encryption: bdes or gpg Message-ID: <40B4D928.4010809@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <40B4A372.5020506@utoronto.ca> References: <40B4A372.5020506@utoronto.ca>
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Another option that you didn't even bring up: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html If you're not using 5.x, then this isn't available to you yet. But I thought I'd bring it up in case you weren't aware of it. Simon Bates wrote: > Dear all, > > I am fairly new to FreeBSD and this is my first post to > freebsd-questions. I hope I am asking my question in the correct forum. > Apologies if not. > > I am hoping someone can give me advice on file encryption. I would like > to encrypt a file and store it on my filesystem. I would like to encrypt > the file so that my data is not readable by someone who gains root > access or physical access to my computer. I do not intend to share the > data with anyone else so a public/private key system is optional. > > I did some Googling and some reading of man pages and I have come up > with 3 options thus far: > > 1. bdes(1) > > 2. gpg -c (/usr/ports/security/gnupg) > > 3. gpg (/usr/ports/security/gnupg) with a public/private key pair for me > plus a passphrase > > I would really appreciate any pointers to discussions of the relative > merits of these approaches or pointers to better options if available. > > Thank you all very much for your time. Best wishes, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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