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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 02:23 -0500, Jason Burrell wrote:
> Here's a new one. Okay, well, it probably isn't.
>
> I have an old Pentium 133 that I want to use as an internal server to
> serve files on encrypted filesystems, act as a database server, and
> securely store mail. The idea i
> s that if the machine reboots, I have to
> ssh into it, enter a passphrase for the filesystems, and unlock them.
> Currently, I'm doing this with Gentoo Linux on that machine, using the
> cryptsetup/loopback device extensions.
>
> 1) This machine has no removable drives. It has four HDDs, no CD, and no
> floppy. Is there a way I can install OpenBSD on one of the free
> partitions without removable media?
>
> 2) Linux supports encrypted filesystems quasinatively. What I'm doing
> right now is creating a file of a specific size on the main filesystem,
> pointing a loopback device to it, then using cryptsetup to do the
> cryptographic transform. Then I mount the thing. Does OpenBSD support
> this kind of thing well? I don't care about compatibility with the
> existing filesystem, since right now everything is off of it anyway
> while I revamp it. I looked into this a long time ago, and all I found
> was the horror known as CFS and its derivatives.
>
> Thanks.
>
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