On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Aaron Clausen <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been passed to me from on high that one of our file servers needs > to be encrypted. I'm considering either whole-disk encryption or > folder encryption. I like the latter since, well, it's less work. > > Is there any particular folder encryption systems out there that the > folks around here can recommend?
You can encrypt *filesystems* on individual partitions on the back end easily enough, in the Linux world. There are numerous technologies for this, though there is an inevitable performance penalty, but that's pretty muchb invisible to the Samba system. The webpage at http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/Encryption-HOWTO-4.html consistently refers to them as "folders", which may be where the confusion arises. I've been hearing good things about AES for robustness and blowfish for speed, but haven't had the chance to try it for Samba serviced filesystems. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
