On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 01:38 PM 10/23/2001 +1000, zem wrote:
> >On 23 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
> > > > vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage
>
> I don't have a BSD system around to check -
> what does this approach do?
Create a loopback device. "-k" means encrypt - cipher is blow
On 24 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
> No, it has nothing to do with speed. Machines are plenty fast. This
> is just a kludgy way to do this, and the last time I tried it, I got
> kernel panics within a day or so of uptime. Not acceptable,
> obviously.
2.7 had problems. It's worked reliably for m
At 01:38 PM 10/23/2001 +1000, zem wrote:
>On 23 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
> > > vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage
I don't have a BSD system around to check -
what does this approach do?
> > Anyway, for an OS which prides itself on built-in crypto,
> > why do we have to mess around with loopback? ...
> > > > vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage
>
> I don't have a BSD system around to check -
> what does this approach do?
It creates an loop encrypted loopback FS.
> > > Anyway, for an OS which prides itself on built-in crypto,
> > > why do we have to mess around with loopback? ...
> >Can you describ
On 23 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
> > vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage
[...]
>
> I am aware of that, but it's a hack, and it doesn't work well. For
> example, it has no way of detecting when you enter an incorrect
> password.
Sure. Just noting that the capability is there, since it's easy to
overloo
