On 6 Feb 2009, at 6:12PM, David Bear wrote:



On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Jason Edgecombe <[email protected] > wrote:
David Bear wrote:
>
> Has there ever been much discussion  on created encrypted volumes?
>  These would work like a local encrypted file system - without they
> key, they are useless. I'm thinking that you might need an fs setkey
> or something like that to insert the key into the cache manager.. fs
> mkmount could have a switch that would specify it was an encrypted
> volume..
>
> simple musing...
>
Why not just use a truecrypt to mount a file from an AFS volume as an
encrypted volume?

Jason

well -- I don't know about truecrypt -- and doubt that windows, mac and linux de jour does as well.

Actually, truecrypt is available for all of the above ;)

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Its probably one of the best ways of having cross platform encryption.

cheers Chris

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