Hi, Fernando. I was looking back over something you said a while back, and I now have a question. We were talking about encryption, which is a problem I solved in connection with the Linux distribution I was concerned with at the time. Now I have an interest in another distribution, ArchLinux, to which you had made reference in our dialogue as you can see below.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Fernando Cassia [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:24 PM > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] encryption > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM, John A. Wallace <[email protected]> > wrote: > > r full disk encryption of a VM file system > > Well, if your host is Linux you could use ecryptfs on the host > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECryptfs > ...but it´s not very user friendly to configure. > > I recommend instead to use EncFS that does the same and you can make > things easy with the "Cryptkeeper" GUI... > > From the Archlinux wiki: > "EncFS is a userspace stackable cryptographic file-system similar to > eCryptfs, and aims to secure data with the minimum hassle. It uses FUSE > to mount an encrypted directory onto another directory specified by the > user. It does not use a loopback system like some other comparable > systems such as TrueCrypt and dm-crypt. > > EncFS is definetely the simplest software if you want to try disk > encryption on Linux. " > > "eCryptFS is implemented in kernelspace and therefore little bit harder > to configure. (...) EncFS this is not the case, because EncFS is > storing these informations in it's signature so you do not have to > remember anything (except the passphrase :-)." So in this quote above you have referenced the ArchLinux wiki in connection with encryption. Can you provide me with a link to this so I can put it in context and read the whole thing more thoroughly? Thanks. > See the cryptkeeper gui and you´ll see how easy it is > http://tom.noflag.org.uk/cryptkeeper.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
