Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-22 Thread Benjamin Schieder
On 21.06.2007 14:03:14, coderman wrote: On 6/21/07, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since running `dmsetup table' still gives the required line to decrypt the block device and LiveCDs generally do not have a secure `root' account, running `dmsetup remove my_tor_home' after mount

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-22 Thread JT
Hi, I already thought about encryption. I plan to use it for /home both in the live and in the installed version. Although, I never used truecrypt. As for now I use cryptsetup-luks to set up encryption. Also, IIRC truecrypt is proprietary. Does its license allow bundling? Redistribution?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread JT
Could you include truecrypt in the next version ? On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0200, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi list. I just put out ROCKate 0.4.0.0. Highlights of the release: - Installable to harddisk (YAY - Also, Ultimate version only) The

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread Benjamin Schieder
On 21.06.2007 05:11:24, JT wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0200, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just put out ROCKate 0.4.0.0. Could you include truecrypt in the next version ? I already thought about encryption. I plan to use it for /home both in the live and in the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread Ringo Kamens
It's free as in freedom and open source. It is subject to export control though. Comrade Ringo Kamens On 6/21/07, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21.06.2007 05:11:24, JT wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0200, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just put out ROCKate

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread scar
Benjamin Schieder @ 2007/06/21 10:03: On 21.06.2007 05:11:24, JT wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0200, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just put out ROCKate 0.4.0.0. Could you include truecrypt in the next version ? I already thought about encryption. I plan to use it for

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread coderman
On 6/21/07, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Although, I never used truecrypt. As for now I use cryptsetup-luks to set up encryption. you may want to consider loop-aes instead. [0] i'll try to avoid a flame war here, but dm-crypt/luks has some deficiencies [1] which may or may

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread Benjamin Schieder
On 21.06.2007 11:22:39, scar wrote: Benjamin Schieder @ 2007/06/21 10:03: On 21.06.2007 05:11:24, JT wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0200, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just put out ROCKate 0.4.0.0. Could you include truecrypt in the next version ? I already

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread Benjamin Schieder
On 21.06.2007 11:55:46, coderman wrote: On 6/21/07, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Key management is an implementation detail and should be of no concern to ROCKate users. right. but this means more work for you (to manage loop-aes keys) as luks makes things simple(r)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread coderman
On 6/21/07, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... So far, I've seen three ways of doing filesystem encryption: 1) simply enter a passphrase, it gets hashed to a key one-way-or-another (hashalot, luks) sure. 2) create the dm-crypt table, encrypt it with a gpg key. on reboot,

[ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-20 Thread Benjamin Schieder
Hi list. I just put out ROCKate 0.4.0.0. Highlights of the release: - Installable to harddisk (YAY - Also, Ultimate version only) The installation first tries to find an existing filesystem with a menu.lst file in either /grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/menu.lst and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-20 Thread Benjamin Schieder
On 20.06.2007 17:09:22, Benjamin Schieder wrote: The following search still stands: If some of you have a non-x86 machine and some CPU cycle to spare, I'd be happy to hand out information on compiling ROCKate. In theory, it _should_ compile out of the box for sparc and PowerPC. In theory... I