On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Joachim Schipper wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:40:44AM -0500, Paul Thorn wrote:
Hi,
I'm open to any suggestions on how else this might be most easily
accomplished.
I don't know about the specific application, but since DVDs are
read-only anyway, and encrypted data tends not be accessed that often,
is there a good reason not to just pipe tar into gpg? That works very
well, and very portably.
Joachim
I was trying to avoid encrypting individual files on the DVD.
Otherwise, to retrieve and use the files involves a local copy. If
possible, I'd prefer to access the DVD as a filesystem (even
at the cost of speed -- or complexity to mount it) if this is at
all possible.
While the tar method would work if I split the data into smaller
segments, retrieval would be cumbersome at best, I fear. The
resulting encrypted tar files would need to be significantly < 4GB
for the same reasons that the large vnd filesystem can't be written
to the disk (ISO doesn't like these large files).
These files may need to be accessed somewhat regularly, so I was
looking for some method that is reasonably secure, but not
overly cumbersome for someone authorised to access.
Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll probably be able to use
something like this for encrypting pure backups that are less
likely to be used regularly.
- Paul
