GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]
Hello once more, One of the readers has replied privately, telling me there's a patch for FBSD 5.x, "mdcrypt", he also supplied me with a URL for downloading (thank you very much!). GDBE, he told me, would most probably not work on md-filesystems. But another thing came to my mind - is it possible to encrypt partitions on a USB-stick using GDBE? (If that worked, it would remove the need for encrypted md-files...) Thank you very much, kind regards, Benjamin pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
> Hello once more,
>
> One of the readers has replied privately, telling me there's a patch for
> FBSD 5.x, "mdcrypt", he also supplied me with a URL for downloading
> (thank you very much!). GDBE, he told me, would most probably not work
> on md-filesystems.
> But another thing came to my mind - is it possible to encrypt partitions
> on a USB-stick using GDBE? (If that worked, it would remove the need for
> encrypted md-files...)
> Benjamin
I will trade links with you. Here is a link to an article describing
GBDE on a USB ThumbDrive. If you are not bound by a privacy request,
please post the link to the patch you mention above.
http://www.bsdnews.org/03/cryptusb.php
Thanks!
--
Mike
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Re: GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:59:07 -0500 "Michael W. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the readers has replied privately, telling me there's a patch > > for FBSD 5.x, "mdcrypt", he also supplied me with a URL for > > downloading(thank you very much!). GDBE, he told me, would most > > probably not work on md-filesystems. > > But another thing came to my mind - is it possible to encrypt > > partitions on a USB-stick using GDBE? (If that worked, it would > > remove the need for encrypted md-files...) > > Benjamin > > I will trade links with you. Here is a link to an article describing > GBDE on a USB ThumbDrive. If you are not bound by a privacy request, > please post the link to the patch you mention above. Hi, the one who responded to him without cc:'ing the list was me. Not out of privacy issues, simply because I responded german. Should have thought about a general interest on this topic and replied here. My fault. The link I gave him was http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2002-08/0116.html The patch was written against a 5.x from Aug 2002, so if it cleanly applies to nowadays freeBSD I do not know. But from a first glance I think it should, though I am not that familiar with kernel code. Joerg pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:59:07 -0500 "Michael W. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will trade links with you. Here is a link to an article describing > GBDE on a USB ThumbDrive. If you are not bound by a privacy request, > please post the link to the patch you mention above. Thank you very much! Uh, I would have posted the URL, now that I'm at home, but since it's already been posted by Mr. Pernfuss, ... I refer to his reply. =) I've tried setting up up an encrypted USB-stick, and it works. The tutorial explains how to encrypt the entire stick. > Thanks! Well, I've got thank you. =) Kind regards, Benjamin pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
