PS: The funniest thing is that some 10 min later he came to my office with a form in which I have to declare that I use the disk for "serious" things and not for other things; among them p 0rn HAHAHAHAHA!!!
2006/11/30, Vim Visual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > reading man vnconfig(8) I guess it'd be easy to associate an > encryption key with a vnode... but this way I create an encrypted disk > partition image... it's not like having the partition itself in the > disk and, what's more, I am thinking of some ~6 GB, which is huge, so > that I think this is not the way to do it. > > Is there any alternative? Let me describe what I am looking for: > > I work at an Institute and I was given a usb disk. As I have my laptop > almost always with me and use it to do all my work (almost, I am using > a cluster somewhere else, but the data analysis, etc is done here, I > "just" have to copy the data). This means that sometimes I am sitting > in a Cafe working with it, or in the office or in the train or > blabla... The laptop itself is small (roughly more than a kilo), so > that I can wear it everywhere. > > Now, this way it's very possible that I drop it sometime or that a > coffee cup falls on it. That's why I backup OFTEN. This is where the > usbdisk comes in place: > > When I am in my office I would like to just plug the usbdisk and run a > small backup script to copy over the most important things; still this > is some 6 GB; I could not reduce it more. When I go home, the disk > stays here and you therefore would just have to plug in a cable to > read/delete/copy everything you want. > > That's why I need encryption. I was using a time ago mcrypt to encrypt > the file itself, which is nice but it'd take some 1-2 hours to encrypt > everything and then I would just forget about backup (you know, the > best backup is the one you do in an easy, quick way; otherwise you > become lazy and forget it) > > Any suggestions? > > BTW a funny story: > ============== > > I got the disk yesterday from one of our admin; he took some minutes > to "prepare" the disk before giving it to me. When I got back to the > office I mounted it and noticed that some ~20GB were occupied. I did a > mere ls -lart and saw a .Trash_Name folder (seemingly the previous > user had been working with those fancy nautilus/kde windows which > automatically create that folder when you "remove" something). > Then a nautilus ubuntu window suddenly popped up (I am still using > ubuntu and moving to o'bsd) -which is a feature I hate- with the > contents of .Trash_Name... and guess... it was FULL with p 0rn movies, > personal pictures etc etc and the worst, a backup of what seemed to be > a windows folder with a written-in-capitals "BANK" subfolder! > > I made a research in the page of the Institute to figure out whom > belonged that Name from the .Trash_Name to make him/her aware of the > thing... and GUESS... who was it? > > Yes, the admin himself!! I talked to him and explained what had > happened and asked whether he needed this hidden trash folder or not. > The answer was a clearly embarrased "no, please, delete everything". > Just imagine what could have happened if it hadn't be me but one of > the directors who asked for a usb disk or, probably worse, if a no so > nice person (ahem) had got the disk with that BANK folder (no idea > what was in there, the poor guy doesn't look like rich :) ) > > I deleted everything, of course. > > That's admin for you! > > When I think that this guy is one of the people keeping the file > system "secure" I start sweating... > > That's why I have to hurry up with my o'bsd system and my encrypted disk. > > Any help? > > Thanks, > > Pau > _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
