Hi Dale, I looked at Veracrypt and ran into the fact that it on windows Veracrypt MUST be installed by an administrator which is a blocker for using USB keys on computers I don't control (such as transporting files securely between locations - i.e., where there is potential to lose the usb key):
see https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Using%20VeraCrypt%20Without%20Administrator%20Privileges.html BillK On 6/7/20 12:49 pm, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As some know, I been playing with encryption recently. I got doing >> it on the command line and using veracrypt for USB sticks down. I >> use Veracrypt for those that I want to work on windoze as well, I >> hope anyway. Now I'm moving on to something else. >> >> Now that I have a spare drive, I want to encrypt it and have a mount >> point for it, /home/dale/documents for example. What I'd like to do, >> when I login in, it asks me for the encryption password and then >> mounts it. When I log out, it reverses. I'm not doing all of /home >> because I want to separate some info. I may do it later. >> >> I did some googling but maybe my search terms aren't good enough. I >> mostly find for /home as a whole but not separate parts of it. When >> I add in Gentoo does some things differently, it may be that this >> isn't even doable. Also, my user password and password for the >> encryption will be different. I'm using KDE but anything that will >> work as part of KDE or along with KDE will be fine with me. >> >> Does anyone have a howto they can link to? Is this even doable? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > > Digging around I found these. > > [ebuild N ~] sys-fs/ecryptfs-utils-111_p20170609::gentoo USE="gtk > nls pam -doc -gpg -openssl -pkcs11 -python -suid -tpm" > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" 1,401 KiB > [ebuild N ] sys-fs/cryptmount-5.3.2::gentoo USE="gcrypt > largefile luks nls openssl udev -argv0switch -cswap -fsck -mount > (-selinux) -systemd" 533 KiB > > Looking at the info I've found tho, I don't think it will do what I'm > looking for. Has anyone used either of these in the past? If so, > does one of these do what I'm looking for? > > I'm surprised someone hasn't come up with this before. Surely I'm not > the only one who would like a automatic way to decrypt, mount, umount > and encrypt with some sort of automated process. Sort of like a USB > stick only with encryption. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
