I use Safehouse, with Blowfish 443, but I can't speak for its security as
I don't have source (commercial product).  Seems to work fine.  Beware
that you disable disk compression on the host disk where you store
Safehouse's disk images, or you'll get weird errors.

So far the only drawback to Safehouse is that it will only format as FAT,
so you waste a lot of space on huge clusters, but the nice thing is that
it will grow the disk as needed.  If you could format it as NTFS, it would
be much better since you'd be able to format the volumes with
compression. (Of course NT wouldn't let you unmount them without a fuss,
but I digress.)

It has a nice feature that if you lock your workstation, it unmounts your
disks.  This is good, but be sure to quit your mailer before you lock your
machine, or it will freak out. :)

Now, if someone installs a keyboard capture device I'm fucked as they'll
have the passphrase, so that's a hole to watch for.  Inspect your
keyboard, swap it often, look for tampered files, etc.  Crack open the
case, make sure there's no bugs inside, etc.

How I get my mail:

ssh tunnel for port 25 and 110 into my mail server, pop3 incoming mail,
SMTP outgoing mail.  Mail is stored on Safehouse disk.  All mail to/from
my server goes encrypted.  (Of course between SMTP servers, that's another
story, but, there's PGP for that.)

Works fine.



On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Gary Jeffers wrote:

>    My fellow Cypherpunks,
> 
>    Bill Stewart speaks of Pgpdisk, Scramdisk, & Safehouse. I am un-
> familiar with these disk encryptors. Would some people like to
> review disk encryptors that they are familiar with? Also, to include
> SecureDrive, SecureDevice, & KOH.
> 
>    Which ones are secure? Which ones are well regarded? Which ones
> include source code? What algorithms? Which is the best?
> 
>    Note: PGP alone is not good enough to secure data on a computer.
> PGP is great for transmission but not for storage. Disk encryptors
> are required for secure storage.
> 
> Yours Truly,
> Gary Jeffers
> 
> BEAT STATE !!!!!!!
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