Subject: Re: encrypted fs
To: Stefan Schumacher , Mark <mindfunk@mindfunk.net>
From: Andy R <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/06/2002 19:07:22
--- Stefan Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Mark wrote:
> 
> >
> > Does anyone have a pointer to a FAQ or HOWTO for
> an encrypted fs? I would
> > really like to do some sort of loopback fs.
> Anyway, any pointers to
> > apropos documentation would be good. I didn't see
> [more probably could not
> > find] it on the netbsd site.
> 
> I would recommend cfs to use, AFAIK it is the only
> CryptoFS
> available for NetBSD.
> 
> I installed it a few days ago and it worked after 20
> minutes of
> work. There are 2 READMEs in the package and they
> describe the
> whole bunch of work to do.
> (If you copied your data to your encrypted>
filesystem, wipe them out
> not just "rm" them)
> 
> I also wrote a very short Doc about cfs, it's
> available at
> http://www.net-tex.de/unix/crypto.html but only in
> german.

Quite interesting. babelfish.altavista.com does a
halfway decent job of converting this to english for a
dense 'murican like me... I may just have to give this
a try.

Andy

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