On 17 September 2009 am 11:47:56 Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Thanks Divyanshu. > I'm used to use gpg to encrypt. But it takes time since I have to copy the > files 1st to a temp machine. I thought by using Seagate's feature it will > be much hassle free, but I need to make sure which encryption they're > using. Thanks again. > Hi Fajar,
Why don't you encrypt the entire disk (or a partition) using cryptsetup and LUKS ? You get full disk AES encryption. The encrypt/decrypt is handled by a linux kernel thread. Once you unencrypt and mount the disk, it appears as a regular disk (/dev/mapper/somename) , it is completely transparent to the apps. I am using cryptsetup for my /home as well as my backups for the past few years and have no complaints. No data corruption even after hard crashes. Another less optimal solution is to use encfs which can encrypt a complete directory tree, and "mount" the unencrypted dir-tree on another mount point. Again, the enc/dec is completely transparent to apps, including ls/cp/rm etc, but since it uses FUSE, it has some oddities (only user can view files, root is not permitted etc) Regards Anand _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
